Supplementary Employment Insurance Benefits. (a) An employee, who is the birth mother is entitled to pregnancy leave and who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits are eligible to receive XXXX Plan payments during the Pregnancy Leave. (b) An employee, who is the birth father and who, due to the death of the birth mother, has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits, shall also be entitled to receive XXXX Plan payments. (c) The XXXX Plan is intended to supplement the Employment Insurance benefits received by employees while they are temporarily unable to work as a result of giving birth. (d) The XXXX Plan payment is based on the difference between the Employment Insurance benefit plus any other earnings received by an employee and ninety-five percent (95%) of their gross weekly earnings and is paid as follows: (i) for the first six (6) weeks, which includes the two (2) week Employment Insurance waiting period; and (ii) up to an additional eleven (11) weeks will be payable if an employee continues to receive Employment Insurance benefits and is unable to work due to a valid health reason related to the birth and provides the Employer with satisfactory medical evidence. (e) The Plan meets the requirements of Section 38 of the Employment Insurance Regulations, specifically that, when combined with an employee's weekly Employment Insurance benefit, the payment will not exceed the claimant's normal weekly earnings from employment and an employee's accumulated leave credits will not be reduced.
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Supplementary Employment Insurance Benefits. (a) An employee, who is the birth mother is entitled to pregnancy leave and who has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits are eligible to receive XXXX Plan payments during the Pregnancy Leave.
(b) An employee, who is the birth father and who, due to the death of the birth mother, has applied for and is in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits, shall also be entitled to receive XXXX Plan payments.
(c) The XXXX Plan is intended to supplement the Employment Insurance benefits received by employees while they are temporarily unable to work as a result of giving birth.
(d) The XXXX Plan payment is based on the difference between the Employment Insurance benefit plus any other earnings received by an employee and ninety-five percent (95%) of their gross weekly earnings and is paid as follows: :
(i) for the first six (6) weeks, which includes the two (2) week Employment Insurance waiting period; and and
(ii) up to an additional eleven (11) weeks will be payable if an employee continues to receive Employment Insurance benefits and is unable to work due to a valid health reason related to the birth and provides the Employer with satisfactory medical evidence.
(e) The Plan meets the requirements of Section 38 of the Employment Insurance Regulations, specifically that, when combined with an employee's weekly Employment Insurance benefit, the payment will not exceed the claimant's normal weekly earnings from employment and an employee's accumulated leave credits will not be reduced.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Supplementary Employment Insurance Benefits. (a1) An employee, Birth parents who is the birth mother is are entitled to pregnancy maternity leave and who has have applied for and is are in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits are eligible to receive XXXX Plan payments during the Pregnancy Leavepayments.
(b2) An employeeSubject to the approval of the Employment Insurance Commission, who is the non-birth father and parents who, due to the death or total disability of the birth motherparent, has have applied for and is are in receipt of Employment Insurance benefits, shall also be entitled maternity benefits are eligible to receive XXXX Plan payments.
(c3) The XXXX Plan is intended to supplement the Employment Insurance benefits received by employees while they are temporarily unable to work as a result of giving birth.
(d4) The Effective 2024 April 03, the XXXX Plan payment is based on the difference between the Employment Insurance benefit plus any other earnings received by an employee and ninety-five one hundred percent (95100%) of their gross weekly earnings and is paid as follows: (i) for the first six seventeen (617) weeks, which includes the two (2) week Employment Insurance waiting period; and (ii) up to an additional eleven (11) weeks will be payable if an employee continues to receive Employment Insurance benefits and is unable to work due to a valid health reason related to the birth and provides the Employer with satisfactory medical evidence.
(e5) The Plan meets the requirements of Section 38 of the Employment Insurance Regulations, specifically that, when combined with an employee's weekly Employment Insurance benefit, the payment will not exceed the claimant's normal weekly earnings from employment and an employee's accumulated leave credits will not be reduced.
(6) Income tax rules or regulations may require a payback of Employment Insurance earnings, depending upon the tax rules in effect at the time an employee is receiving benefits. Under the XXXX Plan, the Employer does not guarantee any specific level of earnings but rather are liable only for the payment of the benefit as described above. The Employer, under no circumstance, will be responsible for any paybacks arising from changes to or the application of the tax regulations.
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Samples: Collective Agreement