Workers' Compensation Top-up. Where any employee is injured on the job, or incurs an industrial illness, and the accident or illness is compensable under The Workers' Compensation Act, the following shall apply: The Employer will continue the employee on full salary as long as the employee's sick leave credits are not exhausted, and any wage replacement benefits the employee is eligible for from the Workers' Compensation Board will be paid directly to the Employer. These payments will occur from the date of injury. The total payments to the employee made by the Employer shall not exceed normal earnings.
Workers' Compensation Top-up. Effective January there are no monetary obligations or otherwise from the Hospital when an employee is being paid by the Workers’ Compensation Board. Employees who prior to January were receiving Workers’ Compensation Board payment and receiving funds from the Hospital from their sick leave bank to top such payment up to full pay, shall continue to receive a payment from the Hospital out of their frozen sick bank. However, such payment shall be reduced to the extent necessary that the total after tax funds received by the employee (including any Workers’ Compensation Board payments) shall be identical to the after tax funds the employee would have received had been at work. 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 benefit would receive from Workers’ Compensation if claim was approved, or the benefit to which would be entitled under the short term sick portion of the disability income plan or equivalent plan). Payment will be provided only if the 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’ 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 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 weeks.
Workers' Compensation Top-up. An employee prevented from performing his or her regular work with the Board as the result of an occupational accident that is recognized by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) as compensable, shall be paid the WSIB award plus an additional amount equivalent to the difference between the amount payable by WSIB and his or her regular salary. For each day upon which this top- up is paid, an employee will have one quarter of a day deducted from his or her accumulative sick leave credits.
