Workplace Safety and Insurance Benefit. The parties agree that rehabilitation and modified work are beneficial to both the employee and the Company, and will do everything reasonable to ensure an early return to gain full employment in the pre-injury job or in modified work, consistent with the worker’s functional abilities and subject to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) requirements. All employees on a work related injury, illness or accident, approved and compensated by the WSIB shall be paid no more and no less than their normal straight time rate for a maximum period of one calendar year. Employees who continue to be on an approved absence for a work related injury, illness or accident or on modified work duties for more than ninety calendar days, will, with the approval of WSIB, receive a salary based on a weekly average of their previous years’ income. This shall be payable on the ninety-first (91st) calendar day and will continue to a maximum period of one calendar year from the date of the injury, illness or accident. Any wage or salary benefit received from the WSIB shall become property of the Company, and any monies received by an employee as wage or salary benefits directly from the WSIB shall be remitted to the Company. In recognition of the process required to maintain employees wages while on an approved work related injury, illness or accident, the parties recognize that an employee receiving WSIB benefits may be eligible for a tax advantage at the end of the year under the Income Tax Act, the Canada Pension Act and the Employment Insurance Act, or other legislation. The amount of the tax advantage paid to the employee is payable to the Company. If the WSIB approves a salary benefit payment that results in the Company receiving a greater salary benefit repayment than the normal net straight time rate pay to the employee during the ninety day qualifying period as specified above, then the Company shall pay the employee at least the amount received by the WSIB, excluding the non statutory deduction. All conditions relating to the requirements of this article shall be applied in each case on a “per injury” basis.
Workplace Safety and Insurance Benefit. The Commission would take the position that any member who is injured while performing his/her duty as a police officer off shift should be covered by Workplace Safety and Insurance Benefits.
