Common use of Wage Indemnity Plan Clause in Contracts

Wage Indemnity Plan. (a) Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 75% of basic pay. Effective April 1, 2018, Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 100% of basic pay. (b) Coverage shall commence on the first day of illness or injury. Doctor's verification of illness will be required after five consecutive work days ofillness. (c) Employees on a four-day week on wage indemnity shall receive a top up allowance to their wage indemnity payment for a paid holiday sufficient to bring their gross income for that day to the equivalent of a day’s regular basic pay. (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018) (d) For the first 48 hours in each calendar year, prorated for the first and last partial years, the BCGEU will top up the 75% Wage Indemnity Plan benefit to 100%. Thereafter, at the employee’s option, the 75% benefit may be supplemented in quarter-day increments by the use of the following in descending order (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018): (i) Vacation leave, banked overtime and vacation bonus. (e) The parties agree that the employees are aware of their right to 5/12 of the savings resulting from the BCGEU's Employment Insurance Premium Reduction as a result of the Wage Indemnity Plan, and that since the inception of the Wage Indemnity Plan the Method of Sharing has been to apply the savings to offset the costs of the Wage Indemnity Plan. (f) In the event the carrier of the Wage Indemnity Plan requests from the employee a medical report or certificate, the cost of producing the medical report or certificate shall be borne by the BCGEU.

Wage Indemnity Plan. (a) Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 75% of basic pay. Effective April 1, 2018, Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 100% of basic pay. (b) Coverage shall commence on the first day of illness or injury. Doctor's verification of illness will be required after five three consecutive work days ofillnessof illness. (c) Employees on a four-day week on wage indemnity shall receive a top up allowance to their wage indemnity payment for a paid holiday sufficient to bring their gross income for that day to the equivalent of a day’s 's regular basic pay. (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018). (d) For the first 48 hours in each calendar year, prorated for the first and last partial years, the BCGEU will top up the 75% Wage Indemnity Plan benefit to 100%. Thereafter, at the employee’s 's option, the 75% benefit may be supplemented in quarter-day increments by the use of the following in descending order (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018):order: (i) Vacation leave, accumulated sick leave credits under the old sick leave plan; (ii) vacation leave or banked overtime and vacation bonusovertime. (e) The parties agree that the employees are aware of their right to 5/12 of the savings resulting from the BCGEU's Employment Insurance Premium Reduction as a result of the Wage Indemnity Plan, and that since the inception of the Wage Indemnity Plan the Method of Sharing has been to apply the savings to offset the costs of the Wage Indemnity Plan. (f) In the event the carrier of the Wage Indemnity Plan requests from the employee a medical report or certificate, the cost of producing the medical report or certificate shall be borne by the BCGEU.

Wage Indemnity Plan. (a) Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 75% of basic pay. Effective April 1, 2018, Employees will be entitled to coverage under a Wage Indemnity Plan providing a benefit up to one year at 100% of basic pay. (b) Coverage shall commence on the first day of illness or injury. Doctor's verification of illness will be required after five consecutive work days ofillnessof illness. (c) Employees on a four-day week on wage indemnity shall receive a top up allowance to their wage indemnity payment for a paid holiday sufficient to bring their gross income for that day to the equivalent of a day’s regular basic pay. (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018) (d) For the first 48 hours in each calendar year, prorated for the first and last partial years, the BCGEU will top up the 75% Wage Indemnity Plan benefit to 100%. Thereafter, at the employee’s option, the 75% benefit may be supplemented in quarter-day increments by the use of the following in descending order (Not applicable effective April 1, 2018): (i) Vacation leave, banked overtime and vacation bonus. (e) The parties agree that the employees are aware of their right to 5/12 of the savings resulting from the BCGEU's Employment Insurance Premium Reduction as a result of the Wage Indemnity Plan, and that since the inception of the Wage Indemnity Plan the Method of Sharing has been to apply the savings to offset the costs of the Wage Indemnity Plan. (f) In the event the carrier of the Wage Indemnity Plan requests from the employee a medical report or certificate, the cost of producing the medical report or certificate shall be borne by the BCGEU.