Common use of Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan Clause in Contracts

Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan. An employee with one year's seniority who agrees to return to work for a period of at least six (6) months and who provides the Employer with proof that she has applied for and is eligible to receive employment insurance benefits pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act, shall be eligible to be paid a maternity leave allowance in accordance with the Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan for a period not to exceed fifteen (15) continuous weeks immediately following the minimum waiting period for employment insurance benefit eligibility. In respect of the period of maternity leave, payments made according to the Supplementary Unemployment Benefit Plan will consist of payments equal to the difference between the EI benefits the employee is eligible to receive and seventy-five percent (75%) of her regular rate of pay, at the time maternity leave commences, less any other monies received during the period which may result in a decrease in EI benefits to which the employee would have been eligible if no extra monies had been received during this period. Where an employee who meets the eligibility requirements for Supplementary Unemployment Benefits is subject to a waiting period of two (2) weeks before receiving employment insurance maternity benefits, an allowance of seventy-five (75%) of the regular rate of pay for each week of the two (2) week waiting period less any other monies earned during this period. "Regular rate of pay" shall mean the rate of pay the employee was receiving at the time maternity leave commenced, but does not include retroactive adjustment of rate of pay, acting pay, shift premium, overtime, or any other form of supplementary compensation.