Common use of SICK BENEFIT Clause in Contracts

SICK BENEFIT. 1. When a regular (not part-time or temporary) hourly paid employee is unable to work for a period of two (2) consecutive working days on account of illness, exclusive of illness or disability due to occupational accidents, he shall receive sick benefits at the rate of ninety-five percent (95%) of his basic rate of pay for forty (40) hours per week, up to a maximum of two hundred twenty (220) work days whether within a single calendar year or during periods encompassing more than a single calendar year if the inability to work arises from, out of or in connection with a single, common or related illness, accident or event. Sick leave benefits will not be allowed, in any case, for the first two (2) working days of such illness excepting that in case an illness extends five (5) or more consecutive working days the two (2) day waiting period shall then be included in the sick benefit payments. Doctor's appointments related to a major illness (FMLA qualifying), hospitalization, or outpatient surgery will be allowed under the sick leave provisions of the Agreement. Vacation hours (increments allowed per the contract) taken for these appointments only may be considered towards the sick waiting time. An employee will be eligible for another period of disability for the same single, common or related illness, accident or event after being released by a physician and performs his normal full-time duties (light duty excluded), for a period of six (6) months. In calculating the said six (6) month period, the employee must actually return to work, and time such as vacation period, holidays, and any other absence from work (whether excused or not) will not count in computing the required six (6) months of regular full-time duties required before an employee is eligible for another period of disability as herein set forth. If an employee is allowed to return to work on a light-duty basis and remains on that light-duty work for nine (9) months, he will be eligible for another period of disability for the same single, common or related illness, accident or event. In calculating the said nine (9) month period, the employee must actually return to work, and time such as vacation period, holidays, and any other absence from work (whether excused or not) will not count in computing the required nine (9) months of light-duty work required before an employee is eligible for another period of disability as herein set forth. 2. Employees must complete six (6) months’ service before being eligible for sick benefits. Sick benefits will not accumulate from year to year. Sick benefits will only be allowed for alcoholism, drug abuse, and emotional disorders if the employee adopts such remedial measures as may be commensurate with his condition, and permits such reasonable examinations and inquiries by the Company representative, as, in the judgment of the Company, may be necessary to ascertain the employee’s condition. Sick leave benefits will not be paid if the illness or disability results from self-employment or employment outside of the Company. Employees shall furnish a certificate from an accredited physician showing incapacity to work, if the sickness or disability extends beyond two (2) working days. 3. Employees must complete application for sick pay benefits and furnish the Company with medical certification that they are unable to work before any sick benefit payments are made. Employees on extended sick leave must recertify their disability every thirty (30) days. The Company and the Union have agreed on the forms to be used for such certification. 4. Sick benefits accruing to an employee may be revised, or entirely eliminated, if, upon an impartial examination, it is found that the employee in question is abusing this sick benefit plan. 5. Any employee claiming payment for benefits or paid time not worked (whether for sick benefits or any other type of benefits or paid time not worked) when such absence is obtained, excused or permitted under conditions evidencing fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or otherwise obtained by an intentionally misleading or false representation, shall be subject to disciplinary action, including discharge. 6. Employees who are off work or injured while working for the Company and are eligible for Worker’s Compensation for temporary total incapacity for work in accordance with the Worker’s Compensation Act, Section 8, shall receive from the Company the difference between the weekly compensation rate for temporary total disability and their basic rate of pay for forty (40) hours per week (gross pay less FICA, Federal, and State Withholding Taxes). In no case during the disability period will an employee receive less or more than his normal basic take-home pay that he was receiving prior to the injury. All authorized deductions, e.g. savings plan, Union dues, insurances, etc. will continue to be withheld from the employee’s disability pay on the same basis as prior to the injury. Company contributions for the Employees’ Savings Plan and ESOP will continue on the same basis as prior to the injury. For withholding tax purposes during the disability period, exemptions claimed by the employee will be limited to the number of his legally eligible exemptions. Such disability payments are to continue until the Company physician releases the employee to return to work or until such time the physician renders the employee wholly and permanently incapable of work. It is agreed that time off while on sick leave or Worker’s Compensation will not be charged against an employee’s allowed time off as provided for under the Family Medical Leave Act. 7. Any employee unable to work for the Company due to illness or accident who is discovered to be employed whether for himself or by another, or who is otherwise acting in a manner inconsistent with the claimed physical ailment, or who is acting in a manner which demonstrated an act of fraud, misleading or misrepresentation, shall be subject to disciplinary action. 8. The Company reserves the right to seek an additional medical opinion at the Company’s cost and expense by means of a physical examination, or otherwise by an accredited physician of the Company’s own choosing. If a disagreement arises as to the opinions as to the employee’s state of health, an impartial examination made by a physician chosen by the two physicians who have a disagreement concerning the employee’s health (the expense of which examination will be borne equally by the Company and the employee), shall be determinative of this issue. Any employee who fails or refuses to obtain the requisite certificate, or who fails or refuses to cooperate in these procedures, shall be subject to disciplinary action. 9. Employees who have completed twelve (12) months of full time continuous service shall be participants under the Ameren Long Term Disability (LTD) Plan. It is understood that sick benefits, as described above, otherwise payable under the Ameren sick leave program will stop on the date an employee becomes eligible for the LTD benefit payments. Once the LTD compensation begins, vacations, holidays, pension, etc. cease to accrue. 10. LTD Administration (the below applies except as revised during the 2017 contract negotiations) a) Eligible employees will go on LTD after the one hundred eighty (180) calendar day elimination period. b) If an employee returns to work after they go on LTD, but before they would have exhausted their eligibility for sick pay at 95%, they will receive the difference between 60% and 95% after they return to work. c) The method of determining eligibility for two hundred twenty (220) workdays pay upon return will be computed as it has been in the past. d) Employees on LTD will not be paid their unused vacation until the end of the calendar year similar to Article IV, Section 1.2. They will accrue vacation consistent with Article IV, Section 4.

SICK BENEFIT. 1. When a regular (not part-time or temporary) hourly paid employee is unable to work for a period of two (2) consecutive working days on account of illness, exclusive of illness or disability due to occupational accidents, he shall receive sick benefits at the rate of ninety-five percent (95%) of his basic rate of pay for forty (40) hours per week, up to a maximum of two hundred twenty (220) work days whether within a single calendar year or during periods encompassing more than a single calendar year if the inability to work arises from, out of or in connection with a single, common or related illness, accident or event. Sick leave benefits will not be allowed, in any case, for the first two (2) working days of such illness excepting that in case an illness extends five (5) or more consecutive working days the two (2) day waiting period shall then be included in the sick benefit payments. Doctor's appointments related to a major illness (FMLA qualifying), hospitalization, or outpatient surgery will be allowed under the sick leave provisions of the Agreement. Vacation hours (increments allowed per the contract) taken for these appointments only may be considered towards the sick waiting time. An employee will be eligible for another period of disability for the same single, common or related illness, accident or event after being released by a physician and performs his normal full-time duties (light duty excluded), for a period of six (6) months. In calculating the said six (6) month period, the employee must actually return to work, and time such as vacation period, holidays, and any other absence from work (whether excused or not) will not count in computing the required six (6) months of regular full-time duties required before an employee is eligible for another period of disability as herein set forth. If an employee is allowed to return to work on a light-duty basis and remains on that light-duty work for nine (9) months, he will be eligible for another period of disability for the same single, common or related illness, accident or event. In calculating the said nine (9) month period, the employee must actually return to work, and time such as vacation period, holidays, and any other absence from work (whether excused or not) will not count in computing the required nine (9) months of light-duty work required before an employee is eligible for another period of disability as herein set forth. 2. Employees must complete six (6) months’ service before being eligible for sick benefits. Sick benefits will not accumulate from year to year. Sick benefits will only be allowed for alcoholism, drug abuse, and emotional disorders if the employee adopts such remedial measures as may be commensurate with his condition, and permits such reasonable examinations and inquiries by the Company representative, as, in the judgment of the Company, may be necessary to ascertain the employee’s condition. Sick leave benefits will not be paid if the illness or disability results from self-employment or employment outside of the Company. Employees shall furnish a certificate from an accredited physician showing incapacity to work, if the sickness or disability extends beyond two (2) working days. 3. Employees must complete application for sick pay benefits and furnish the Company with medical certification that they are unable to work before any sick benefit payments are made. Employees on extended sick leave must recertify their disability every thirty (30) days. The Company and the Union have agreed on the forms to be used for such certification. 4. Sick benefits accruing to an employee may be revised, or entirely eliminated, if, upon an impartial examination, it is found that the employee in question is abusing this sick benefit plan. 5. Any employee claiming payment for benefits or paid time not worked (whether for sick benefits or any other type of benefits or paid time not worked) when such absence is obtained, excused or permitted under conditions evidencing fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or otherwise obtained by an intentionally misleading or false representation, shall be subject to disciplinary action, including discharge. 6. Employees who are off work or injured while working for the Company and are eligible for Worker’s Compensation for temporary total incapacity for work in accordance with the Worker’s Compensation Act, Section 8, shall receive from the Company the difference between the weekly compensation rate for temporary total disability and their basic rate of pay for forty (40) hours per week (gross pay less FICA, Federal, and State Withholding Taxes). In no case during the disability period will an employee receive less or more than his normal basic take-home pay that he was receiving prior to the injury. All authorized deductions, e.g. savings plan, Union dues, insurances, etc. will continue to be withheld from the employee’s disability pay on the same basis as prior to the injury. Company contributions for the Employees’ Savings Plan and ESOP will continue on the same basis as prior to the injury. For withholding tax purposes during the disability period, exemptions claimed by the employee will be limited to the number of his legally eligible exemptions. Such disability payments are to continue until the Company physician releases the employee to return to work or until such time the physician renders the employee wholly and permanently incapable of work. It is agreed that time off while on sick leave or Worker’s Compensation will not be charged against an employee’s allowed time off as provided for under the Family Medical Leave Act. 7. Any employee unable to work for the Company due to illness or accident who is discovered to be employed whether for himself or by another, or who is otherwise acting in a manner inconsistent with the claimed physical ailment, or who is acting in a manner which demonstrated an act of fraud, misleading or misrepresentation, shall be subject to disciplinary action. 8. The Company reserves the right to seek an additional medical opinion at the Company’s cost and expense by means of a physical examination, or otherwise by an accredited physician of the Company’s own choosing. If a disagreement arises as to the opinions as to the employee’s state of health, an impartial examination made by a physician chosen by the two physicians who have a disagreement concerning the employee’s health (the expense of which examination will be borne equally by the Company and the employee), shall be determinative of this issue. Any employee who fails or refuses to obtain the requisite certificate, or who fails or refuses to cooperate in these procedures, shall be subject to disciplinary action. 9. Employees who have completed twelve (12) months of full time continuous service shall be participants under the Ameren Long Term Disability (LTD) Plan. It is understood that sick benefits, as described above, otherwise payable under the Ameren sick leave program will stop on the date an employee becomes eligible for the LTD benefit payments. Once the LTD compensation begins, vacations, holidays, pension, etc. cease to accrue. 10. LTD Administration (the below applies except as revised during the 2017 contract negotiations) a) Eligible employees will go on LTD after the one hundred eighty (180) calendar day elimination period. b) If an employee returns to work after they go on LTD, but before they would have exhausted their eligibility for sick pay at 95%, they will receive the difference between 60% and 95% after they return to work. c) The method of determining eligibility for two hundred twenty (220) workdays pay upon return will be computed as it has been in the past. d) Employees on LTD will not be paid their unused vacation until the end of the calendar year similar to Article IV, Section 1.2. They will accrue vacation consistent with Article IV, Section 4.