WSIB Top-Up a) Teachers who, as of August 31, 2014, were entitled to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board benefits top-up, such entitlement shall be as follows:
i. Where the WSIB top-up was previously deducted from sick leave the board shall continue to maintain the same level of top-up without deduction from sick leave.
ii. These top-up payments are to be made for a period not to exceed four years and six months and that period should include any time in the past that eligible unused sick credits were already used by the employee.
b) Additional provisions related to this article remain status quo in accordance with terms of collective agreements in effect as of August 31, 2014.
c) Status quo to be determined.
WSIB Top-Up. If a class of employees was entitled to receive WSIB top-up on August 31, 2012 deducted from sick leave, the parties must incorporate those same provisions without deduction from sick leave. The top-up amount to a maximum of four (4) years and six (6) months shall be included in the 2014-19 collective agreement. Employees who were receiving WSIB top-up on September 1, 2012 shall have the cap of four (4) years and six (6) months reduced by the length of time for which the employee received WSIB top-up prior to September 1, 2012.
WSIB Top-Up. Any full-time employee prevented from working as the result of an occupational accident/injury/illness that is recognized by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensational shall receive full net wages and benefits from the Employer for the period in which:
(a) WSIB benefits are paid; and
(b) the employee would have been eligible to receive wages from the Employer had the employee not been absent (i.e., for as long as the employee would have worked until the employee would have been laid-off pursuant to the Collective Agreement) to a maximum of six (6) months (not necessarily consecutive) from the date of the accident/injury/illness. All money received by such employee during this time from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board shall be paid directly to the Employer.
WSIB Top-Up. Employees off duty as a result of an occupational accident or occupational illness incurred in the performance of their duties shall be provided with hospitalization and medical care as provided by the Workplace' Safety and Insurance Act of Ontario. While an employee is off work or on modified duties and receives Workers' Compensation or insurance at less than regular salary, the employee shall be paid the difference between the Worker’s Compensation or insurance payments and normal earnings (net normal pay) by the Employer until the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board reaches a final decision with respect to Total Disability or until the employee becomes of pensionable age (normal retirement age), whichever shall first occur. In the event that the Board awards a Loss of Earnings to age 65, the Corporation will have no further liability under this clause. Notwithstanding the above, the Corporation will make every effort to place a disabled employee in a job that is totally within the employee's capabilities.
WSIB Top-Up a) All employees shall be covered under the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act. The parties agree that, once approved, employees off work due to a Workplace Safety & Insurance Board related absence will receive compensation in accordance with the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act. The Corporation shall pay employees off work due to a Workplace Safety & Insurance Board related absence and in receipt of loss of earnings benefits under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act or the Workers Compensation Act, such further amount, that being the difference between full benefit entitlement and 100% of ‘net’ salary of pre-injury earnings for such period as the employee's sick leave allowance permits. Once an employee's sick leave allowance is exhausted, the Corporation shall not be under any obligation to continue the “top-up” as provided in this paragraph.
b) Prior to approval by Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, an employee shall be permitted to request an advance equivalent to the net amount expected from WSIB plus the top up as provided in 17.02 (a), provided they have sufficient accumulated sick time to repay the advance should the claim be denied. Should the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board deny the claim, the sick time would be paid and the advance returned to the employer out of said payment.
c) In the case of employees with less than one (1) year of service who are absent by reason of a WSIB related absence, once accumulated sick time is exhausted as in b (i) above, employees shall be permitted to borrow future sick time up to a maximum of twenty (20) days.
WSIB Top-Up. (a) All employees shall be covered under the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act. The parties agree that, once approved, employees off work due to Workplace Safety & Insurance Board related absence will receive compensation in accordance with the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act.
(b) The Company shall pay employees off work due to a Workplace Safety & Insurance Board related absence and in receipt of loss of earnings benefits under the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act, such further amount, that being the difference between full benefit entitlement and 100% of ‘net’ salary of pre-injury earnings for such period as the employee’s sick leave allowance permits.
(c) Once an employee’s sick leave allowance is exhausted, the Company shall not be under any obligation to continue the ‘top-up’ as provided in this paragraph.
(d) Prior to approval by the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board, an employee shall be entitled to an advance equivalent to the net amount expected from WSIB plus the top-up as provided in 11.09 b), provided they have sufficient accumulated sick time to repay the advance should the claim be denied. Should the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board deny the claim, the sick time would be paid and the advance returned to the employer out of said payment.
WSIB Top-Up. All employees who are injured at work are entitled to apply to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (“WSIB”) for loss of earning benefits. The TTC will provide a top-up to the loss of earn- ing benefit paid to an employee if he or she was injured while per- forming his or her regular duties, the workplace incident is an unforeseen, extraordinary event and the employee’s application for loss of earning benefits was approved by the WSIB.
WSIB Top-Up. Any full-time employee prevented from working as the result of an occupational accident/injury/illness that is recognized by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as compensational shall receive full net wages and benefits from the Employer for the period in which:
(a) WSIB benefits are paid; and
(b) the employee would have been eligible to receive wages from the Employer had the employee not been absent (i.e., for as long as the employee would have worked until the employee would have been laid-off pursuant to the Collective Agreement) to a maximum of six (6) months (not necessarily consecutive) from the date of the accident/injury/illness. All money received by such employee during this time from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board shall be paid directly to the Employer. Every eligible employee shall join the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (O.M.E.R.S.) pension plan as a condition of employment in accordance to the Plan.
WSIB Top-Up. Entitlement of any currently covered employee continues (Credit Valley employees hired prior to January 1, 1988)
WSIB Top-Up. Shall be in accordance with Part A, Central Terms, Letter of Understanding #2 of this Collective Agreement and as follows: An employee on staff who is injured in the course of their duty and has had their claim approved by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) shall receive from the Board their regular gross salary, consisting of WSIB award (advances) plus top-up amount. The Board shall not make deductions from the employee’s Sick Leave/Short Term Disability Coverage days. The top-up shall be for a maximum of four (4) years and six (6) months.
