Common use of SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY Clause in Contracts

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to I apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months 3)months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months 3)months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one (1) year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The parties may agree to voluntarily cash out existing sick leave banks. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan pian in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; whereWhere, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she the nurse subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where Hospital Central Agreement March Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ the Workplace and Safety Insurance Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her or his regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she or he otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-long- term benefits under or an equivalent plan may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. The Union agrees that it will encourage a nurse to utilize the medical appeals process, if any, to resolve disputes. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short short-term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ ' Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse Hospital Central Agreement March would be entitled under the short short-term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. If the Ifthe claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short short-term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (Articles and apply to both full-time and part-time nurses) Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which the nurse participates as of October Ifthe Employer requires the employee to obtain a medical certificate, the employer shall pay the full cost of obtaining the certificate.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to are related to Sick Leave and-Long-term Disability will be incorporated in all collective agreements:) The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding shall provide a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. Copies of the brochure will be made available to employees upon request. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent (75%) of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-long term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent planequivalent). The employee will ; employees shall pay the balance of the billed premium premiums through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During Effective April employees with or more years will be paid at the benefit level for all incidences of absence covered by Any dispute which may arise concerning an employee's entitlement to short-tern or long-term of operation benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse An employee who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the employee would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the employees claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the employee would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse employee provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse employee would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. Sick leave banks standing to the credit of an employee shall be utilized to supplement payment for sick leave days which would be paid at less than full wages, or for sick leave days at no wages. Pay out of sick leave credits shall be made on termination of employment or, in the case of death, to the employee's estate. The amount of the payment shall be a cash settlement at the employee's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the previous accumulating sick leave credit plan. Where an employee, employed as of the effective date of the transfer to or equivalent, did not have the required service to qualify for pay out on termination, he shall be entitled to the same pay out provisions as set out in Article above, providing he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify for pay out under those provisions. Where an employee, with accumulated sick leave credits remaining, is prevented from working for the Hospital because of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of the Workers' Compensation Act the Hospital, on application from the employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages to the employee by such amount that the award of the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred percent of the employee's net earnings to the limit of the employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers' Compensation. The Hospital shall pay for such medical as it may require from time-to-time to certify an employees illness or ability to return to work.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at . least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The leave shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she the nurse subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the The Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ CornpensationWorker's Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her or his regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she or he otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participates as of the date of this award. October Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen weeks. (15Articles and apply to part time nurses only) weeks.Part-time nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which nurse participates as of October HOURS OF The following provision designating regular hours on a daily tour and regular daily tours over the nursing schedule determined by the Hospital shall not be construed to be a guarantee of the hours of work to be performed on each tour or during each tour schedule. Subject to Article below:

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent plan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service their service. There shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective no pay deduction from an regular scheduled shift when the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered consid- ered as sick leave under the sick leave planUnemployment Insurance Rebate The short-term sick plan shall be registered with the Unemployment Insurance Commission . A nurse The employees' share of the unemployment insurance premium reduction will be retained by the Hospital towards offsetting-the cost of the benefit improvements contained Agreement-. An employee who is unable to for due to ill- ness must notify her immediate supervisor or designate as far in advance as possible and if illness is prolonged, must:’ keep her supervisor informed on a regular basis. An employee who has so notified her supervisor and is unable to confirm attendance on her next regularly scheduled shift shall be required to notify the supervisor when she is able to return to work, at which time she be advised of next scheduled shift. An employee who reports for work following an illness prior notice, as above, may be sent home, without pay, for that shift. An employee who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ ' Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits benefit she would receive from Workers' Compensation if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse employee provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse employee would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.. ARTICLE COMPENSATION

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of their actual service. Effective October the first of the month following the transfer, all existing accumulating sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals plan shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plan shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employeeemployee at the then current per diem rate of pay based on his -regular straight time hourly rate. The "sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: --- al Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which program or paragraph 5 below would otherwise be at less than full wageswages and, and; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout on termination of employment shall be made on the termination that portion of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided leave dollars under the sick leave plan in which she participated as former conditions relating to payout. Where, a s of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, October an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she he shall be entitled entitled, on termination, to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above that portion of any unused sick leave dollars providing she he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her him for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where relating to such payout. Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, an employee who has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The the Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from nursethe employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse employee by such amount that the award of The the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of percent o f the nurse’s employee's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for from Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse There shall be no pay deduction from an employee's regular scheduled shift when the employee has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by Unemployment Insurance Rebate The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short short-term sick leave plan shall be registered with the Unemployment Insurance The employee’s share of the Employer's unemployment insurance reduction will provide payment be retained by the Hospital towards offsetting the cost of the benefit improvements contained in this Agreement. On the termination of his/her for whatever reason, an employee with five years or more of service prior to October shall receive in cash at the wage rate pertaining on October the balance of her accumulated sick leave entitlement after all deductions have been for the number use under Article provided that the total cash payment shall not in any event exceed the equivalent of hours fifty percent of absence according one hundred days entitlement of fifty percent of her total earned entitlement, whichever is less. In order to qualify for sick leave pay, except where sent home by the Hospital on account of illness, employees must inform their Supervisor or in the Supervisor's absence, the Switchboard Operator as soon as possible, and at least one hour prior to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions beginning of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandisemployee's shift, if they are unable to report for work. Absences due Subject to pregnancy related the requirements of the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Program, the Hospital reserves the right to require confirmation or proof of illness shall be considered as by medical certificate or otherwise, before payment of sick leave under is granted. In cases of illness in excess of three days the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to employee will notify the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser as soon as possible of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approvedanticipated date of return to work, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment and will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to notify the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination twenty-four hours in advance of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Boardher return. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation twenty-four hours notice is not approvedgiven prior to her commencing shift, the monies paid as an advance will said shift may be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeksdelayed twenty-four hours.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding shall provide a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. Copies of the brochure will be made available to employees upon request. The Hospital will pay percent of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-long term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent planequivalent). The employee will ; employees shall pay the balance of the billed premium premiums through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During Effective April employees with or more years service will be paid at the benefit level for all incidences of absence covered by Any dispute which may arise concerning an employee's entitlement to term of operation or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse An employee who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the employee would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the employee's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the employee would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse employee provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse employee would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. Sick leave banks standing to the credit of an employee shall be utilized to supplement payment for sick leave days which would otherwise be paid at less than full wages, or for sick leave days at no wages. Pay out of sick leave credits shall be made on termination of employment or, in the case of death, to the employee's estate. The amount of the payment shall be a cash settlement at the employee's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the previous accumulating sick leave credit plan. Where an employee, employed as of the effective date of the transfer to or equivalent, did not have the required service to qualify for pay out on termination, he shall be entitled to the same pay out provisions as set out in Article above, providing he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify for pay out under those provisions. Where an employee, with accumulated sick leave credits remaining, is prevented from working for the Hospital because of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of the Workers' Compensation Act the Hospital, on application from the employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages to the employee by such amount that the award of the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred percent (100%) of the employee's net earnings to the limit of the employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers' Compensation. I The Hospital shall pay for such medical as it may require from time-to-time to certify an employee's illness or ability to return to work.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a shortPart-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of October ARTICLE HOURS OF WORK The following provision designating regular hours on a daily tour and regular daily tours over the date nursing schedule determined by the Hospital shall not be construed to be a guarantee of this awardthe hours of work to be performed on each tour or during each tour schedule. Any dispute Subject to Article below: The normal daily tour shall be seven and one-half consecutive hours in any twenty-four hour period exclusive of an unpaid one-half hour meal period, it being understood that at the change of tour there will normally be additional time required for reporting which may arise concerning shall be considered to be part of the normal daily tour, for a nurse’s entitlement period of up to short-term or long-term benefits fifteen minutes' duration. Should the reporting time extend beyond fifteen minutes, however, the entire period shall be considered overtime for the purposes of payment under may Article Nurses shall be entitled, subject to grievance the exigencies of patient care, to relief periods during the tour on the basis of fifteen minutes for each half tour. The scheduling of meal periods and arbitration relief periods shall be determined by local negotiation. Where a nurse notifies her supervisor that she has been or will be unable to take the normal lunch break due to the requirement of providing patient care, such nurse shall be paid time and one half her regular straight time hourly rate for all time worked in excess of her normal daily hours. Where nurses are now working a longer daily tour, the provisions set out in this Article governing the regular hours of work on a daily tour shall be adjusted accordingly. The normal daily extended tour shall be consecutive hours in any period, exclusive of a total of forty-five minutes of unpaid meal time. Nurses shall be entitled, subject to the exigencies of patient care, to relief periods during the tour of a total of forty-five minutes. The scheduling of meal and relief periods shall be determined by local negotiations. The introduction or discontinuance of longer daily tours shall be determined by local negotiations. NOTE: Hospitals that have extended tours that are presently different conditions. than the above, shall maintain those ARTICLE PREMIUM PAYMENT If a part-time nurse is to work in excess of the hours referred to in Article (a), she shall receive overtime premium of one and one-half times her regular straight time hourly rate. A part-time nurse (including casual nurses but not including time nurses who are filling temporary full-time vacancies) who works in excess of seventy-five hours in a two week period shall receive time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of seventy-five A part-time nurse who is filling a temporary full-time vacancy shall receive time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of an average of hours per week over the full-time nursing schedule determined by the Hospital. Such averaging will commence at the conclusion of the two week period following the nurse's transfer to the temporary full-time position and will end at the conclusion of the two week period prior to her return to her former position. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no overtime premium shall be paid for a period of less than fifteen minutes of overtime work where the nurse is engaged in reporting functions at the end of her normal daily tour, If overtime amounts to fifteen minutes or more, overtime premium shall be paid for the total period in excess of the normal daily tour. Overtime premium will not be duplicated for the same hours worked under Article (a) nor shall there be any pyramiding with respect to any other premiums payable under the provisions of this Collective Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as Nothing herein will the nurse to payment of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coveragenormal tour differential provided herein. The Hospital further agrees that if the Collective Agreement provided a greater premium for overtime work immediately prior to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals Hospital will meet and consult with continue to pay such greater overtime premium. This is not intended to entitle the Association with the view nurse to assisting the parties be paid for work performed while engaged in the next reporting functions as provided herein.. Notwithstanding the foregoing, overtime will not be paid for additional hours worked during a twenty-four hour period either as a result of change in tour on the request of a nurse or a change-over to daylight saving from standard time or vice-versa or an exchange of tours by two nurses. Work scheduled by the Hospital to which a premium is attached under scheduling regulations contained in the collective Agreement and set out in the Appendix of negotiations Local Provisions shall be paid at one and one-half times the nurse's regular straight time hourly rate or as otherwise provided. Where a nurse is required to improve work on a paid holiday or on an overtime tour or on a tour that is paid at the benefit coverage provided rate of time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate as a result of above and she is required to work additional hours following her full tour on that day (but not including hours on a subsequent regularly scheduled tour for such nurse) she shall receive two times her regular straight time hourly rate for such additional hours worked. A part-time nurse who reports for work as scheduled, unless otherwise notified by The the Hospital, shall receive a minimum of four time hourly rate. pay at her regular straight She shall be required to perform any nursing duties assigned by the Hospital will notify each which she is capable of doing, if her regular duties are not available. Where a regular part-time nurse has completed her regularly scheduled tour and left the hospital and is called in to work outside her regularly scheduled working hours, or where a nurse is called back from standby, she shall receive time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for all hours worked with a minimum guarantee of the amount of unused sick leave in four hours' pay at time and half her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according straight time hourly rate except to the extent that such four hour period overlaps or extends into her regularly scheduled tour shift. In such a case, she will receive time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for actual hours worked up to a total the commencement of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave planher regular shift. A nurse who is absent from required to remain available for duty on standby outside her regularly scheduled working hours shall receive standby pay in the amount of two dollars and fifty cents per hour for the period of standby scheduled by the Hospital. Where such duty falls on a paid holiday, as set out in the Appendix of Local Provisions, the nurse shall receive standby pay in the amount of three dollars per hour. Standby pay shall, however, cease where the nurse is called in to work under above and works during the period of standby. The regular straight time hourly rate will be the hourly rate in the wage schedule set forth in Article (a). A nurse shall be paid a shift premium of one dollar per hour for each hour worked which falls within the hours defined as an evening shift and one dollar and twenty-five cents for each hour worked which falls within the hours defined as a result night shift provided that such hours exceed two hours if worked in conjunction with the day shift. For purposes of an illness or injury sustained at work this provision, the night shift and who has been awaiting approval the evening shift each consist of hours. Tour differential will not form part of the nurse's straight time hourly rate. The defined hours of a claim night and evening shift shall be a matter for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weekslocal negotiation.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the longLong-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months three. or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits credits' for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The leave shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves achieves' the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness illness. or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ Workers Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. by a long-term of this award, continue their The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ ' Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the the. benefits she would receive from Workers' Compensation if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.. ARTICLE HOURS OF The following provision designating regular hours on a daily tour and regular daily tours over the nursing schedule determined by the Hospital shall not be construed to be a guarantee of the hours of work to be performed on each tour or during each tour schedule. subject to Article below:

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will (Articles to to full-time nurses only) ‘2.01 Hospitalwill assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall service be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year Iy)ear or more of service shall be deemed to have one year (Iy)ear of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all ail existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT MARCH the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.;

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility NOTE Provisions in existing Collective Agreements providing for providing time off to study for College of Nurses examinations, to write regis- tration examinations or examinations for courses of study related to employment shall be continued in effect and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer added to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of serviceabove provisions in such Collective Agreements. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing exist- ing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be ter- minated and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout pa out of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt specifical y t with hereinafter. m Existing sick leave credits for each employee e shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of o the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date dote of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The “sick leave bank” shall be utilized supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case em of death, to the nurse’s estate. The T or in the case amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse’s then current salary xxx- ary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated partici- pated as of the date of this award; o graph where, as of the effective date of transfer, an on employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as OS of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled enti- tled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing service to she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout a ut under the conditions con- ditions of the sick leave plan which she participated in w as of the date of this award; she participated es where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident occident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workers’ Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Com- pensation Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the The Workers’ Compensation Com- pensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings to the limit of o the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ CornpensationCompensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or WorkersWork- ers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her regular straight time hourly rate. This will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning concernin a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date dote of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. a The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal p to any loss of benefits under for H an amount equal or the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work dayda , the short short-term sick leave plan will provide payment for the pro- number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions visions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for from Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation Corn if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she e would be entitled beentitled under the short short-term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan)ARTICLE HOURS OF WORK ing each tour schedule. Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory Subject to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.Article below:

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar calend..ar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. apply All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits benefit she would receive from Workers' Compensation if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short 'term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approvedWhere nurses are now working a longer daily tour, the monies paid as an advance will provisions set out this Article governing the regular hours of work on a daily tour shall be applied towards adjusted accordingly. The normal daily extended tour shall be consecutive hours in any period, exclusive of a total of forty-five minutes of unpaid meal time. Nurses shall be entitled, subject the benefits exigencies of patient care, to which relief periods during the nurse would tour of a total of forty-five minutes. The scheduling of meal and relief periods shall be entitled under determined by local negotiations. The introduction or of longer daily tours shall be determined by local negotiations. maintain NOTE: Hospitals different the short term portion of the disability income planconditions. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.-ARTI-CLE - -PREM-IUM -PA-YMEN-T

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will Hospitalwill assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick Existingsick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The parties may agree to voluntarily cash out existing sick leave banks. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; whereWhere, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she the nurse subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ the and Safety Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her or his regularly scheduled tour scheduledtour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this awardhe qualities. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement 's to short-term or long-term benefits under or an equivalent plan may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. The Union agrees that it will encourage a nurse to utilize the carrier's medical appeals process, if any, to resolve disputes. Nurses presently employed presentlyemployed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short short-term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ ' Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse Hospital Central Agreement March would be entitled under the short short-term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short short-term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (Articles and apply to both full-time and part-time nurses) Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which the nurse participates as of October If the Employer requires the employee to obtain a medical certificate, the employer shall pay the full cost of obtaining the certificate.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent (75%) of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent plan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of their actual service. Effective (not applicable) the first of the month following the transfer, all existing accumulating sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals plan shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plan shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted con- verted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employeeemployee at the then current per diem rate of pay based on his regular straight time hourly rate. The "sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan program or paragraph below which would otherwise be at less than full wageswages and, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout on termination of employment shall be made on the termination that portion of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided leave dollars under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; whereformer conditions relating to payout. Where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted con- to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she he shall be entitled entitled, on termination, to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above that portion of any unused sick leave dollars providing she he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her him for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where relating to such payout. Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, an employee who has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The the Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from nursethe employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse employee by such amount that the award of The the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent percent (100%) of the nurse’s employee's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse There shall be no pay deduction from an employee's regular scheduled shift when the employee has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar cal- endar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered consid- ered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a shortPart-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of October ARTICLE HOURS OF WORK The following provision designating regular hours on a daily tour and regular daily tours over the date nursing schedule determined by the Hospital shall not be construed to be a guarantee of this awardthe hours of work to be performed on each tour or during each tour schedule. Any dispute Subject to Article below: The normal daily tour shall be seven and one-half consecutive hours in any twenty-four hour period exclusive of an unpaid one-half hour meal period, it being understood that at the change of tour there will normally be additional time for reporting which may arise concerning shall be to be part of the normal daily tour, for a nurse’s entitlement period of up to shortfifteen minutes duration, Should the reporting time extend beyond fifteen minutes, however, the entire period shall be considered overtime for the purposes of payment under Article Nurses shall be entitled, subject to the exigencies of patient care, to relief periods during the tour on the basis of fifteen minutes for tour. The. meal periods relief determined by local negotiations. Where a nurse has been or be to lunch break to of patient care, such one half her rate for in excess of daily hours. Where nurses an a the set out Article of work daily tour accordingly. total The normal daily extended tour shall hours in any PI-term or longhour period, of forty-term benefits under may five of unpaid The of by Nurses shall be subject to grievance patient care, to relief periods during total of forty-five r by local of The introduction o be and arbitration relief NOTE: Hospitals that have extended tours that are different than the above, shall conditions. ARTICLE If a part-time nurse is to the hours referred to Article receive of f I times her regular hourly rate. nurse (which includes casual in of seventy-five hours in a two receive time and time for all in seventy-five the overtime premium shall for a of fifteen minutes of the engaged in reporting functions at of daily tour. 🖐♐ ⚫ minutes or shall paid the total period excess of the tour. Overtime premium will not fur hours worked under Article (a) nor there any pyramiding with to any under the provisions of herein will the to of normal tour Hospital agrees that if the Collective Agreement provided a greater premium for overtime work immediately prior to this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals Hospital will meet and consult with continue to pay such greater overtime premium. This not intended to entitle the Association with the view nurse to assisting the parties be paid for work performed while engaged in the next set of negotiations to improve reporting functions as provided herein. the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital foregoing, overtime will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular not be paid for additiona hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to worked during a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work twenty-four hour period either as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval change in tour on the request of a claim nurse or a change-over to daylight saving from standard time or vice versa or an exchange of tours by two nurses. Work scheduled by the Hospital to which a premium is attached under scheduling regulations contained in the 1 Agreement and set out in the Appendix of Local Provisions shall be paid at one and one-half times the nurse's regular straight time hourly rate or as otherwise provided. Where a nurse is required to work on a paid holiday or on an overtime tour or on a tour that is time and one-half her aid at the rate of straight time hourly rate as a result of above and she is required to work additional hours following her full tour on that day (but not including hours on a subsequent regularly scheduled tour for Workers’ Compensation such nurse) she shall receive two times her regular straight time hourly rate for such additional hours worked. R A part-time nurse who reports for work as scheduled, unless otherwise notified by the shall receive a period longer than one complete minimum of four hours' pay period may apply at regular straight 'time hourly rate. She shall be required to any nursing duties assigned by the Hospital w she is capable of doing, if her regular duties are not available. Where a regular part-time nurse has completed her regularly scheduled tour and left the hospital and is in to work regularly scheduled working or where a nurse called back from standby, she time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for all hours worked with a minimum guarantee of four hours' pay at time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate except to the Hospital extent that such four hour period overlaps or extends into her regularly scheduled. shift. In such a case, she will receive time and one-half her regular straight hourly rate for payment Equivalent actual hours worked up to the lesser commencement of her regular shift. A nurse is required to for standby outside regularly shall receive standby in Mount of for the period of standby scheduled b the April pay . Standby pay shall, is called in to work under Article the of will The regular straight hourly rate in the wage schedule set A nurse shall be paid a shift of forty-five per hour for each hour worked hours of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approvedday that such hours Tour differential will c-f the nurse's straight hourly rate. Ambulance Escort Where a nurse is assigned to provide patient a patient in transit, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only following the nurse provides evidence ⚫ - assigned shift, she shall be paid her rate of disability satisfactory pay. the nurse continues to duties in excess of her shift, be paid the such duties beyond the Hospital not require a to to regular duties at the Hospital at eight hours of off. extends into her next regularly she will for full shift. Hours spent between the is of patient care the nurse returns to the hospital or to such location xxxx upon the Hospital the nurse be paid at straight at appropriate overtime rates, if Article It shall return to the hospital or to other location a xxxx n the nurse at e ear to xxxxx's departure on escort duty, time as may be agreed Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approvednurse, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which establish with the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weekstravel.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will Hospitalwill assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-long- term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1I) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year (Iy)ear of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.;

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-long- term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year Iy)ear or more of service shall be deemed to have one (1) year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she providingthe nurse subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act' CompensationAct, the Hospital, on application from applicationfrom the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, together with the Ilag supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ CornpensationWorker's Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her or his regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she or he otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participates as of the date of this award. October Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to negotiationsto improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will Hospitalwill notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for Worker's Compensationfor a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (Articles and apply to part time nurses only) Part-time nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which the nurse participates as of October If the Employer requires the employee to obtain a medical certificate, the employer shall pay the full cost of obtaining the certificate.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of seventy-five percent Of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent planPlan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of Of the transfer with three (3) months months' or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months months' of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of their actual service. Effective December the first of the month following the transfer, all existing accumulating sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals plan shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plan shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employeeemployee at the then current per diem rate of pay based on his regular straight time hourly rate. The "sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan program or paragraph below which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; and where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout on termination of employment shall be made on the termination that portion of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided leave dollars under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; whereformer conditions relating to payout. Where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she he shall be entitled entitled, on termination, to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above that portion of any unused sick leave dollars providing she he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her him for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where relating to such payout. Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, Agreement an employee who has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The the Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from nursethe employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse employee by such amount that the award of The the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) percent of the nurse’s employee's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse ARTICLE SICK LEAVE There shall be no pay deduction from an employee's regular scheduled shift when the employee has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar day year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result Unemployment Insurance Rebate The short-term sick leave plan shall be registered with the Insurance Commission The employee's share of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Employer's unemployment insurance premium reduction will be retained by the Hospital for payment Equivalent to towards offsetting the lesser cost of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under improvements contained in this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeksAgreement.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a shortPart-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of October ARTICLE HOURS OF WORK The following provision designating regular hours on a daily tour and regular daily tours over the date nursing schedule determined by the Hospital shall not be construed to be a guarantee of this awardthe hours of work to be performed on each tour or during each tour schedule. Any dispute Subject to Article below: The normal daily tour shall be seven and one-half consecutive hours in any twenty-four hour period exclusive of an unpaid one-half hour meal period, it being understood that at the change of tour there will normally be additional time for reporting which may arise concerning shall be to be part of the normal daily tour, for a nurse’s entitlement period of up to shortfifteen minutes duration, Should the reporting time extend beyond fifteen minutes, however, the entire period shall be considered overtime for the purposes of payment under Article Nurses shall be entitled, subject to the exigencies of patient care, to relief periods during the tour on the basis of fifteen minutes for tour. The. meal periods relief determined by local negotiations. Where a nurse has been or be to lunch break to of patient care, such one half her rate for in excess of daily hours. Where nurses an a the set out Article of work daily tour accordingly. total The normal daily extended tour shall hours in any PI-term or longhour period, of forty-term benefits under may five of unpaid The of by Nurses shall be subject to grievance patient care, to relief periods during total of forty-five r by local of The introduction o be and arbitration relief NOTE: Hospitals that have extended tours that are different than the above, shall conditions. ARTICLE If a part-time nurse is to the hours referred to Article receive of f I times her regular hourly rate. nurse (which includes casual in of seventy-five hours in a two receive time and time for all in seventy-five the overtime premium shall for a of fifteen minutes of the engaged in reporting functions at of daily tour. 4ł • minutes or shall paid the total period excess of the tour. Overtime premium will not fur hours worked under Article (a) nor there any pyramiding with to any under the provisions of herein will the to of normal tour Hospital agrees that if the Collective Agreement provided a greater premium for overtime work immediately prior to this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals Hospital will meet and consult with continue to pay such greater overtime premium. This not intended to entitle the Association with the view nurse to assisting the parties be paid for work performed while engaged in the next set of negotiations to improve reporting functions as provided herein. the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital foregoing, overtime will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular not be paid for additiona hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to worked during a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work twenty-four hour period either as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval change in tour on the request of a claim nurse or a change-over to daylight saving from standard time or vice versa or an exchange of tours by two nurses. Work scheduled by the Hospital to which a premium is attached under scheduling regulations contained in the 1 Agreement and set out in the Appendix of Local Provisions shall be paid at one and one-half times the nurse's regular straight time hourly rate or as otherwise provided. Where a nurse is required to work on a paid holiday or on an overtime tour or on a tour that is time and one-half her aid at the rate of straight time hourly rate as a result of above and she is required to work additional hours following her full tour on that day (but not including hours on a subsequent regularly scheduled tour for Workers’ Compensation such nurse) she shall receive two times her regular straight time hourly rate for such additional hours worked. R A part-time nurse who reports for work as scheduled, unless otherwise notified by the shall receive a period longer than one complete minimum of four hours' pay period may apply at regular straight 'time hourly rate. She shall be required to any nursing duties assigned by the Hospital w she is capable of doing, if her regular duties are not available. Where a regular part-time nurse has completed her regularly scheduled tour and left the hospital and is in to work regularly scheduled working or where a nurse called back from standby, she time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate for all hours worked with a minimum guarantee of four hours' pay at time and one-half her regular straight time hourly rate except to the Hospital extent that such four hour period overlaps or extends into her regularly scheduled. shift. In such a case, she will receive time and one-half her regular straight hourly rate for payment Equivalent actual hours worked up to the lesser commencement of her regular shift. A nurse is required to for standby outside regularly shall receive standby in Mount of for the period of standby scheduled b the April pay . Standby pay shall, is called in to work under Article the of will The regular straight hourly rate in the wage schedule set A nurse shall be paid a shift of forty-five per hour for each hour worked hours of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approvedday that such hours Tour differential will c-f the nurse's straight hourly rate. Ambulance Escort Where a nurse is assigned to provide patient a patient in transit, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only following the nurse provides evidence • - assigned shift, she shall be paid her rate of disability satisfactory pay. the nurse continues to duties in excess of her shift, be paid the such duties beyond the Hospital not require a to to regular duties at the Hospital at eight hours of off. extends into her next regularly she will for full shift. Hours spent between the is of patient care the nurse returns to the hospital or to such location xxxx upon the Hospital the nurse be paid at straight at appropriate overtime rates, if Article It shall return to the hospital or to other location a xxxx n the nurse at e ear to nurse's departure on escort duty, time as may be agreed Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approvednurse, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which establish with the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weekstravel.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will Hospitalwill assume total responsibility for responsibilityfor providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to deemedto have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1I) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one (1) year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick Existingsick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The parties may agree to voluntarily cash out existing sick leave banks. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; whereWhere, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she the nurse subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on Hospitalon account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ the Workplace and Safety Insurance Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her regularly scheduled or his regularlyscheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for paidfor the balance of balanceof the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she or he otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to 's entitlementto short-term or long-long- term benefits under or an equivalent plan may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. The Union agrees that it will encourage a nurse to utilize the carrier's medical appeals process, if any, to resolve disputes. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will Hospitalwill notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short short-term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to accordingto the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. I A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ ' Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse would be entitled under the short short-term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to benefitsto which the nurse would nursewould be entitled under the short short-term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (Articles and both full-time and part-time nurses) Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-timeor subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which the nurse participates as of October If the Employer requires the employee to obtain a medical certificate, the employer shall pay the full cost of obtaining the certificate.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. (Articles to apply to full-time nurses only) The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will Hospitalwill pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-long- term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year Iy)ear or more of service shall be deemed to have one year (Iy)ear of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her or his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she the nurse shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the nurse subsequentlyachieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she or he participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from preventedfrom working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ CornpensationWorker's Compensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her or his regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she the nurse shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her or his regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she or he otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she the nurse participates as of the date of this award. October Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan pian in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her or his bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the nurse would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the nurse's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the nurse would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (Articles and apply to part time nurses only) Part-time nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers' Compensation be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her or his accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which the nurse participates as of October If the Employer requires the employee to obtain a medical certificate, the employer shall pay the full cost of obtaining the certificate.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-the term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The “sick leave bank” shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse’s estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick xxxxxxxxxxx leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set provisionsasset out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation thesupplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any portion of her regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the tour at her regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. , Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent plan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of their actual service. Effective February the first of the month following the transfer, all existing accumulating sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals plan shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employeeemployee at the then current diem rate of pay based on his regular straight time hourly rate. The "sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave bank" shall be utilized supplement to: Supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan program or paragraph 5 below which would otherwise be at less than full wageswages and, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout on termination of employment shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for that portion any unused sick credits to the maximum provided leave dollars under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; whereformer conditions relating to payout. Where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her his existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she he shall be entitled entitled, on termination, to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above that portion of unused sick leave dollars providing she he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her him for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where relating to such payout. Where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, an employee who has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented pre- vented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The the Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from nursethe employee, will supplement sup- plement the award made by the Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse employee by such amount that the award of The the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) percent of the nurse’s employee's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize Employees such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. When a nurse There shall be no pay deduction from an employee's regular scheduled shift when the employee has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ ' Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result Unemployment Insurance Rebate The short-term sick leave plan shall be registered with the Unemployment Insurance Commission The employees' share of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Employer's unemployment insurance premium reduction will be retained by the Hospital for payment Equivalent to towards offsetting the lesser cost of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approvedbenefit improvements contained in this Agreement. Pay for sick leave is for the sole and only purpose of protecting the employee against loss of income when he is legitimately ill, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment and will be provided only granted on the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.basis:

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. NOTE: The provisions of Article Sick Leave and Long-Term Disability, apply to full-time employees only. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding shall provide a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. Copies of the brochure will be made available to employees upon request. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent (75%) of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-long term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent planequivalent). The employee will ; employees shall pay the balance of the billed premium premiums through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be and any provisions relating to such Plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave shall be utilized supplement payment for leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour prior to going sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During Notwithstanding the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandisand Article employees with four or more years of service will be paid of earnings from the first day of the third and subsequent of absence in any calendar year. Absences due Any dispute which may arise an employee's entitlement to pregnancy related illness shall short-term or long-term benefits under may be considered as sick leave subject to grievance and arbitration under the sick leave planprovisions of this Agreement. A nurse An employee who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she benefit the employee would receive from Workers' Compensation her if the employee's claim was approved, or the benefit to which she the employee would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse employee provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse employee would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks. (The following clause will only appear in those collective agreements at hospitals where sick leave banks were established on the transfer to or equivalent:) Sick leave banks standing to the credit of an employee shall be utilized to supplement payment for sick leave days which would otherwise be paid at less than full wages, or for sick leave days at no wages. (Articles and will only appear in those collective agreements at hospitals which had sick leave credit pay out provisions in their collective agreements expiring December, Pay out of sick leave credits shall be made on termination of employment or, in the case of death, to the employee's estate. The amount of the payment shall be a cash settlement at the employee's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the previous accumulating sick leave credit plan. Where an employee, employed as of the effective date of the transfer to or equivalent, did not have the required service to qualify for pay out on termination, he shall be entitled to the same pay out provisions as set out in Article above, providing he subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify for pay out under those provisions. Where an employee, with 'accumulated sick leave credits prevented from working for the Hospital because of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of the Workers' Compensation Act the Hospital, on application from the employee, will supplement the award made by the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages to the employee by such amount that the award of the Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred percent (100%) of the employee's net to the limit of the employee's accumulated sick leave credits. Employees may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers' Compensation.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan or an equivalent plan). The employee will pay the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion portion, of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with one (1I) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of service. Effective the first of the month following the transfer, all existing sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plans shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employee. The sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer to the Plan set. set out in Article The "sick leave bank" shall be utilized to: supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, payout shall be made on the termination of employment, or in the case of death, to the nurse's estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the nurse's then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ The Workers' Compensation Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ ' Compensation Act, the Hospital, on application from the nurse, will supplement the award made by the The Workers’ ' Compensation Board for loss of wages, wages to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Workers' Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s 's net earnings to the limit of the nurse’s 's accumulated sick leave credits. , Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation' Compensation. t When a nurse has completed any portion of her regularly scheduled tour prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation ' benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the e tour at her regular straight time hourly rate. This provision will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an illness or injury compensable under Workers’ ' Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, if available. A nurse who transfers from full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s 's entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan in effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverage. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. . During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due -due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Worker's Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent equivalent to the lesser of the benefits benefit she would receive from Workers' Compensation if her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Workers' Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ ' Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied J towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.

SICK LEAVE AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY. The Hospital will assume total responsibility for providing and funding a short-short- term sick leave plan at least equivalent to that described in the Hospitals of Ontario Disability Income Plan brochure. The Hospital will pay seventy-five percent (75%) of the billed premium towards coverage of eligible employees under the long-term disability portion of the Plan plan or an equivalent plan). The , the employee will pay paying the balance of the billed premium through payroll deduction. For the purpose of transfer to the short-term portion of the disability program, employees on the payroll as of the effective date of the transfer with three (3) months or more of service-service shall be deemed to have three (3) months of service. For the purpose of transfer to the long-term portion of the disability program, employees on the active payroll as of the effective date of the transfer will be credited with one (1) year or more of service shall be deemed to have one year of their actual service. Effective January the first of the month following the transfer, all existing accumulating sick leave plans in the Participating Hospitals plan shall be terminated and any provisions relating to such Plans plan shall be null and void under the respective Collective Agreements except as to those provisions relating to payout of unused sick leave benefits which are specifically dealt with hereinafter. Existing sick leave credits for each employee shall be converted to a sick leave bank to the credit of the employeeemployee at the then current per diem rate of pay based on his regular straight time hourly rate. The "sick leave bank shall contain the unused sick leave days to the credit of the nurse on the effective date of the transfer the Plan set. out Article The leave bank" shall be utilized to supplement payment for sick leave days under the new plan program or paragraph below which would otherwise be at less than full wages, and; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan the Collective Agreement, payout . There shall be made on no pay deduction from an employee's regular scheduled shift when the termination of employment, or the case of death, to the estate. The amount of the payout shall be a cash settlement at the then current salary rate for any unused sick credits to the maximum provided under the sick leave plan in which she participated as of the date of this award; where, as of the effective date of transfer, an employee does not have the required service to qualify for payout on termination, her existing sick leave credits as of that date shall nevertheless be converted to a sick leave bank in accordance with the foregoing and she shall be entitled to the same cash out provisions as set out in paragraph above providing she subsequently achieves the necessary service to qualify her for payout under the conditions of the sick leave plan which she participated as of the date of this award; where a payout provision existed under the former sick leave plan in the Collective Agreement, a nurse who, as of the date of this award, has accumulated sick leave credits and is prevented from working for the Hospital on account of an occupational illness or accident that is recognized by the Workers\ Board as compensable within the meaning of The Workers’ Act, the Hospital, on application from nurse, will supplement the award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board for loss of wages, to the nurse by such amount that the award of The Compensation Board for loss of wages, together with the supplementation of the Hospital, will equal one hundred per cent (100%) of the nurse’s net earnings the limit of the nurse’s accumulated sick leave credits. Nurses may utilize such sick leave credits while awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Cornpensation. When a nurse has completed any her regularly scheduled tour portion of the shift prior to going on sick leave benefits or Workers’ Compensation benefits, she shall be paid for the balance of the at her regular straight time hourly rate. will not disentitle the nurse to a lieu day under Article if she otherwise qualifies. Nurses returning to work from an or injury compensable under Workers’ Compensation will be assigned light work as necessary, available. A nurse who transfers full-time to part-time may elect to retain her accumulated sick leave credits to be utilized during part-time or subsequent full-time employment as provided under the sick leave plan in which she participates as of the date of this award. Any dispute which may arise concerning a nurse’s entitlement to short-term or long-term benefits under may be subject to grievance Workplace Safety and arbitration under the provisions of this Agreement. Nurses presently employed who are covered by a long-term disability plan effect as of the date of this award, may elect to be covered by or to continue their present coverageInsurance Benefits. The Hospital further agrees to pay employees an amount equal to any loss of benefits under for the first two (2) days of the fourth and subsequent period of absence in any calendar year. During the term of operation of this Collective Agreement, the Hospitals will meet and consult with the Association with the view to assisting the parties in the next set of negotiations to improve the benefit coverage provided by The Hospital will notify each nurse of the amount of unused sick leave in her bank annually. For nurses whose regular hours of work are other than the standard work day, the short term sick leave plan will provide payment for the number of hours of absence according to the scheduled tour to a total of hours. All other provisions of the existing plan shall apply mutatis mutandis. Absences due to pregnancy related illness shall be considered as sick leave under the sick leave plan. A nurse who is absent from work as a result of an illness or injury sustained at work and who has been awaiting approval of a claim for Workers’ Compensation for a period longer than one complete pay period may apply to the Hospital for payment Equivalent to the lesser of the benefits she would receive from Compensation her claim was approved, or the benefit to which she would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only the nurse provides evidence of disability satisfactory to the Hospital and a written undertaking satisfactory to the Hospital that any payments will be refunded to the Hospital following final determination of the claim by The Workers\ Compensation Board. If the claim for Workers’ Compensation is not approved, the monies paid as an advance will be applied towards the benefits to which the nurse would be entitled under the short term portion of the disability income plan. Any payment under this provision will continue for a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks.