Common use of Accident and Sickness Clause in Contracts

Accident and Sickness. 24:01 Sick Leave means the period of time an employee is permitted to be absent from work by virtue of being sick, disabled, quarantined, or because of a non-work related accident not covered under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. 24:02 Sick Leave shall not mean any time absent from work due to an accident or disablement incurred, while employed by an employer other than the City of Guelph, where compensation for that accident or disablement is being paid under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act through the other employer. 24:03 Notification Requirements for Absence: (a) Employees who are unable to assume their normal duties on any scheduled working day must notify their supervisor prior to their normal starting time. Exceptions may be granted, if the employee has reasonable cause for not being able to contact their immediate supervisor prior to their normal start time. (b) Employees returning to work after an absence of four (4) or more working days in duration must notify their supervisor at least one day in advance of their return to work date. (c) The supervisor shall be responsible for maintaining the contact telephone number for employees in the respective work areas. (d) The employee must call in on every day of absence unless an extended leave of absence for a specified period of time has been approved. Where the employee is hospitalized or confined for medical care the employee shall not be required to call in on a daily basis. 24:04 Short Term Disability (STD): (a) A STD Plan, as per the Master Benefit Contract, will be provided to all full time employees and for part time employees hired to work twenty-one (21) hours or more per week. The City’s Insurance Carrier will adjudicate claims, based on the STD plan in the Master Benefit Contract. STD is paid by the Corporation to an employee, who is absent due to non-work related illness, subject to medical justification. (b) Full time employees, as of the 1st of the month following ratification of the contract, will have the remainder of the cumulative sick leave hours carried forward but the balance would have no value on retirement, death or termination of employment. (c) The carried forward cumulative sick leave hours could be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). After the cumulative sick leave hours is depleted, the employee may request to top-up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (d) STD will be subject to medical justification both to commence an STD claim and to continue an STD claim, if the claim extends past the original approval date. (i) The waiting period for STD coverage will be from 1st day of accident or from 1st day of hospitalization or from the 3rd day of sickness. (ii) STD will be paid to a maximum of twenty-six (26) weeks. (iii) The STD benefit will be based on seventy-five percent (75%) of the employee’s standard base weekly pay. Standard weekly pay is the weekly hours of work times the employee’s rate of pay at the time of 24:05 Applying for Short Term Disability (STD): (a) An Employee applying for STD benefits is required to complete the STD forms of the Insurer, available from the Human Resources Department. (b) The waiting period for illness, would be deducted from the employee’s non-cumulative sick hours. If the employee does not have sufficient non-cumulative sick hours, the employee may request to be paid from their stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (c) Employees applying for STD benefits shall receive up to four (4) weeks payment, while waiting on the adjudication by the Insurance Carrier. If the claim is denied, the employee may appeal the decision to the Insurance Carrier. (d) If an employee has cumulative sick leave hours they would be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). If the employee has no cumulative sick leave hours, the employee may request to top- up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (e) An employee shall be accompanied by the designated Union Representative in discussions regarding their claim and the employee does have grievance rights under Article 12:01, at Step 2. (f) Should the STD claim be denied after exhausting the above options, the employee shall be required to repay any overpayment monies at ten percent (10%) per pay. If the employee leaves the employment of the City, prior to repayment of the overpayment in full, the amount shall be deducted from their final pay. (g) Pension contributions, union dues, and all required deductions shall be deducted while the employee is on STD. If the employee is receiving seventy-five percent (75%) STD with no top-up, they would be required to sign an agreement to have a reserve established to buy back OMERS, on return to work. (h) Where the City or the Insurance Carrier requires the employee to supply a medical certificate to verify sick leave, the City agrees to reimburse the employee for one hundred (100%) of the cost of the medical certificate(s), upon submission of a receipt(s).

Accident and Sickness. 24:01 Sick Leave means (a) A regular full-time employee who is absent by reason of incapacity caused by an accident or occupational illness occurring while on duty and who is granted temporary total disability benefits from the period Workplace Safety and Insurance Board shall be provided with hospital and medical care in accordance with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act and will be paid the difference between the amount of time an such award and the employee’s basic daily wage. The difference between the award and the employee’s basic daily wage shall be calculated so that the employee’s net (take-home) pay matches but does not exceed the employee’s normal net (take-home) pay. Such payment will be authorized and continue except where: (1) the employee has not formally elected to claim compensation in cases where a third party is involved; (2) the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board ceases to authorize payment of temporary total disability benefits; (3) the employee is permitted fit to be return to work; (4) the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board awards a permanent total or permanent partial disability benefit; (5) employment terminates; or (6) the employee takes an unreduced retirement pension from ▇▇▇▇▇. (a) All regular employees shall have placed to their credit, one and one-half (1- 1/2) days sick leave for each full month of employment, but are not entitled to draw sick leave pay until they have accumulated three (3) months service with the Corporation. (b) Any employee absent through his or her own illness shall notify the Department of their inability to perform his or her duties due to sickness at the earliest opportunity and in any event not later than the commencement of the first shift of absence. (c) An employee who is absent from work by virtue for three (3) consecutive working days shall provide the Fire Chief with a certificate from a physician within seven (7) calendar days from the commencement of being sicksickness or upon return to work, disabledwhichever occurs first, quarantinedreporting the duration or probable duration of the sickness with the first and most recent dates of attendance upon the employee, or because and the expected date of a non-work related accident return to work. (d) An employee shall not covered receive sick pay when eligible to receive compensation under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. 24:02 Sick Leave shall not mean any time absent from work , due to an accident or disablement incurred, injury sustained while employed by an employer on the payroll of someone other than the City of Guelph, where compensation for that accident or disablement is being paid under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act through the other employer. 24:03 Notification Requirements for Absence: (a) Employees who are unable to assume their normal duties on any scheduled working day must notify their supervisor prior to their normal starting time. Exceptions may be granted, if the employee has reasonable cause for not being able to contact their immediate supervisor prior to their normal start time. (b) Employees returning to work after an absence of four (4) or more working days in duration must notify their supervisor at least one day in advance of their return to work date. (c) The supervisor shall be responsible for maintaining the contact telephone number for employees in the respective work areas. (d) The employee must call in on every day of absence unless an extended leave of absence for a specified period of time has been approved. Where the employee is hospitalized or confined for medical care the employee shall not be required to call in on a daily basis. 24:04 Short Term Disability (STD): (a) A STD Plan, as per the Master Benefit Contract, will be provided to all full time employees and for part time employees hired to work twenty-one (21) hours or more per week. The City’s Insurance Carrier will adjudicate claims, based on the STD plan in the Master Benefit Contract. STD is paid by the Corporation to an employee, who is absent due to non-work related illness, subject to medical justification. (b) Full time employees, as of the 1st of the month following ratification of the contract, will have the remainder of the cumulative sick leave hours carried forward but the balance would have no value on retirement, death or termination of employment. (c) The carried forward cumulative sick leave hours could be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). After the cumulative sick leave hours is depleted, the employee may request to top-up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (d) STD will be subject to medical justification both to commence an STD claim and to continue an STD claim, if the claim extends past the original approval date. (i) The waiting period for STD coverage will be from 1st day of accident or from 1st day of hospitalization or from the 3rd day of sickness. (ii) STD will be paid to a maximum of twenty-six (26) weeks. (iii) The STD benefit will be based on seventy-five percent (75%) of the employee’s standard base weekly pay. Standard weekly pay is the weekly hours of work times the employee’s rate of pay at the time of 24:05 Applying for Short Term Disability (STD): (a) An Employee applying for STD benefits is required to complete the STD forms of the Insurer, available from the Human Resources Department. (b) The waiting period for illness, would be deducted from the employee’s non-cumulative sick hours. If the employee does not have sufficient non-cumulative sick hours, the employee may request to be paid from their stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (c) Employees applying for STD benefits shall receive up to four (4) weeks payment, while waiting on the adjudication by the Insurance Carrier. If the claim is denied, the employee may appeal the decision to the Insurance Carrier. (d) If an employee has cumulative sick leave hours they would be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). If the employee has no cumulative sick leave hours, the employee may request to top- up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal daysCorporation. (e) An employee who is requested by the Corporation to submit a medical certificate for any reason shall be accompanied reimbursed in full for the cost of that certificate by the designated Union Representative Corporation. 9.03 Each employee absent on sick leave for a period of less than three (3) days and after the third (3rd) time in discussions regarding their claim each calendar year may be required, at the discretion of the Fire Chief, to produce a physician’s certificate. 9.04 If an employee is absent on sick leave more than once on a holiday recognized in Article 8.01 (a), within the preceding two (2) years, the Chief, at his discretion, may request a physician’s note. If a note is requested under this clause, this absence counts toward the total three (3) absences before a note is required in Article 9.03. 9.05 An employee absent for more than fifteen (15) consecutive working days shall furnish immediately following such fifteen (15) days, and each subsequent fifteen (15) consecutive days of absence, a certificate from the employee’s personal physician stating latest date of attendance and the probable date on which the employee does have grievance rights under Article 12:01, at Step 2will return to duty. 9.06 An employee absent from work in excess of sixty (f60) Should consecutive calendar days for medical reasons, will, prior to returning to work, be required to have a medical assessment regarding the STD claim condition which caused the absence, by a physician selected by the Corporation. An employee, who is not satisfied with such assessment, will have the right to be denied after exhausting examined by a physician of the above optionsemployee’s choosing. If the report of the employee’s physician is contrary to the first report, the employee will be examined by a third physician satisfactory to both parties. The Corporation will underwrite the cost of all such medical examinations. 9.07 Where an employee is absent on account of illness and cumulative sick pay credits have been exhausted, the employee shall not receive sick pay credit for the month of absence. Where an employee is absent for more than six (6) months due to illness or injury, sick leave credit shall not further accumulate during the absence. 9.08 An employee shall not be required entitled to repay sick pay in advance of any overpayment monies credit earned in the current month; such credit becomes available only on and after the first day of the following month. 9.09 Whenever in any month an employee’s days of illness exceeds the cumulative sick pay credit at ten percent (10%) per the end of such month, the excess days of illness shall not be charged against credit becoming available in the future, but shall be regarded as days of illness without pay. If . 9.10 When an employee is given leave of absence without pay for any reason, or is laid off on account of lack of work and returns to the service of the Corporation upon expiration of such leave of absence, the employee leaves shall not receive credit for the employment period of such absence, but shall retain the Citycumulative credit, prior to repayment if any, existing at the time of the overpayment in full, the amount such leave. 9.11 The number of days or parts of days for which an employee received "Sick Pay" shall be deducted from their final paythe employee’s Cumulative Sick Pay Credit. If twenty-four (24) hour shifts are worked, then twenty-four (24) hours shall be considered as two (2) days. (g) Pension contributions9.12 Any or all the unused portion of Sick Pay Credit shall be accumulated to the benefit of the employee from year to year. The unused portion of the yearly accumulation shall be computed at the end of each year and brought forward in days. 9.13 Where an employee who is injured in circumstances which might entitle the employee to compensation under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, union dueselects instead to claim against the third person, the employee shall, as a condition of receiving sick pay benefits as hereinbefore provided, undertake in writing to reimburse the Corporation out of the proceeds of any settlement or judgement upon such claim the amount of money equivalent to the value of such sick pay benefits, and all required deductions upon having made such reimbursement, the employee’s accumulated sick pay credits shall be deducted restored accordingly. 9.14 An employee who is injured on duty where no action for such injuries would lie against a third person, and who is unable to work as a result of such injury, shall, while off work, be advanced by the Corporation to the extent of available sick leave credits an amount equal to an estimate of the anticipated WSIB daily benefit to which the employee is on STDmay be entitled, until such time as a ruling has been made by the Board upon the employee’s claim. If the Board rules against the claim, the accumulated sick leave credits of the employee is receiving seventy-five percent (75%) STD with no top-up, they would shall be required to sign an agreement to have a reserve established to buy back OMERS, on return to workreduced accordingly. (h) Where 9.15 This section applies only to those employees who were hired in the City or the Insurance Carrier requires the employee Fire Department prior to supply a medical certificate to verify sick leaveOctober 7, the City agrees to reimburse the employee for one hundred (100%) of the cost of the medical certificate(s), upon submission of a receipt(s)1987.

Accident and Sickness. 24:01 Sick Leave means The employees off duty as a result of an accident or occupational illness incurred the of their duty shall be provided with free hospitalization and medical care and full salary during such period off duty up to but not exceeding six months from the date of time an employee is permitted to be absent from work by virtue the accident or the commencement of being sickthe occupational illness. Provided however, disabled, quarantined, or because that nothing herein contained shall in any way limit the rights of a non-work related accident not covered the employees under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. 24:02 Sick Leave , or any other Act, Regulation or By- law passed by any body with competent jurisdiction for the protection or benefit of the employees. Provided however, in no case shall not mean any time absent from work due the total sums paid to an accident or disablement incurred, while employed and received by an employer other than employee, exclusive of hospitalization and medical care, exceed full salary of the City of Guelphemployee, where compensation for the period such employee was off duty. While an employee is on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits for up to six (6) months, the Employer will deduct from the employee's sick pay bank, when available, day for each day on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits that accident or disablement is being the employee would have been required to work by normal scheduling, and pay the employee an amount equal to the difference paid under by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act through Board and the other employer. 24:03 Notification Requirements employee's regular pay. Employees on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits for Absence: a period longer than six (a6) months shall, so long as they have sick day credits, have their Workplace Safety and Insurance payment supplemented by the Corporation to the extent of day sick pay for each day they would have been required to work by normal scheduling. Any payments under this clause shall cease upon any settlement of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Employees who are unable will be granted one and one half (1 days per month sick leave with unlimited accumulation (18 days per year). An employee claiming sick leave shall report to assume the office of the Fire Chief as early as possible on the day which the sick leave is claimed. When an employee has been informed by their normal duties on any scheduled working day must notify physician that their supervisor prior to their normal starting illness shall extend over a period of time. Exceptions may be granted, if the employee has reasonable cause for not being able to contact their immediate supervisor prior to their normal start time. (b) Employees returning to work after an absence of four (4) or more working days in duration must notify their supervisor at least one day in advance shall report full facts of their return illness to work date. (c) The supervisor shall be responsible for maintaining the contact telephone number for employees in the respective work areas. (d) The employee must call in on every day of absence unless an extended leave of absence for a specified period of time has been approved. Where the employee is hospitalized or confined for medical care the employee Chief as early as possible and shall not be required to call in on a daily basis. 24:04 Short Term Disability (STD): (a) A STD Plan, as per report again until the Master Benefit Contract, will be provided employee is prepared to all full time employees and return to work. Employees absent for part time employees hired to work twenty-one (21) hours three or more per weekdays may be required to present a Doctor's Certificate, upon returning to work, to their immediate Supervisor. The City’s Insurance Carrier will adjudicate claimsEmployer reserves the right to request a Doctor's Certificate at any time where sick pay is claimed. Any employee of the Fire Department who sustains an injury on or off the job shall present a Doctor's Certificate upon returning to duty stating that the employee is capable of performing their normal duties. Upon retirement from the Cambridge Fire Department, based on the STD plan in the Master Benefit Contract. STD is paid by the Corporation to an employeewhether normal retirement, who is absent retirement due to non-work related illness, subject health or release from employment due to medical justification. (b) Full time employees, as of the 1st of the month following ratification of the contract, will have the remainder of the cumulative sick leave hours carried forward but the balance would have no value on retirement, death accident or termination of employment. (c) The carried forward cumulative sick leave hours could be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). After the cumulative sick leave hours is depletedprolonged sickness, the employee may request will receive one half of their accumulated sick pay, not to top-up their STD with non-cumulative exceed six months' salary at the current rate. In the event of death while in the employ of the Employer fifty percent (50%)of the employee's accumulated sick hourspay, stat lieu banknot to exceed six (6) months pay, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (d) STD will be subject to medical justification both to commence an STD claim and to continue an STD claim, if the claim extends past the original approval date. (i) The waiting period for STD coverage will be from 1st day of accident or from 1st day of hospitalization or from the 3rd day of sickness. (ii) STD will shall be paid to a maximum of twenty-six (26) weeks. (iii) The STD benefit will be based on seventy-five percent (75%) the employee's executors or administrators, and shall form part of the employee’s standard base weekly pay's estate. Standard weekly pay is the weekly hours of work times the employee’s rate of pay at the time of 24:05 Applying for Short Term Disability (STD): (a) An Employee applying for STD benefits is required to complete the STD forms of the Insurer, available Days from the Human Resources Department. (b) The waiting period for illness, would be deducted from the employee’s non-cumulative sick hours. If the employee does not have sufficient non-cumulative sick hours, the employee may request to be paid from their stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (c) Employees applying for STD benefits shall receive up to four (4) weeks payment, while waiting on the adjudication by the Insurance Carrier. If the claim is denied, the employee may appeal the decision to the Insurance Carrier. (d) If an employee has cumulative sick leave hours they would be used until depleted credits will apply to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%)working days only. If the employee has no cumulative sick leave hours, the employee may request to top- up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (e) An employee The Employer shall be accompanied by the designated Union Representative in discussions regarding their claim and the employee does have grievance rights under Article 12:01, at Step 2. (f) Should the STD claim be denied after exhausting the above options, the employee shall be required to repay any overpayment monies at ten percent (10%) per pay. If the employee leaves the employment of the City, prior to repayment of the overpayment in full, the amount shall be deducted from their final pay. (g) Pension contributions, union dues, and all required deductions shall be deducted while the employee is on STD. If the employee is receiving seventy-five percent (75%) STD with no top-up, they would be required to sign an agreement to have a reserve established to buy back OMERS, on return to work. (h) Where the City or the Insurance Carrier requires the employee to supply a medical certificate to verify sick leave, the City agrees to reimburse the employee for one hundred (100%) assume of the cost of the premiums of the following health coverage benefits: A major medical certificate(s)and drug plan. Effective January the plan shall include f u l l coverage for active employees. Effective December the plan shall be amended to provide for no lifetime maximum. Drug Formulary Semi Private coverage after four (4) days of hospitalization per calendar year, upon submission The Blue Cross dental plan or equivalent. The schedule of fees is to be updated one year behind the contract. Rider and Rider Orthodontia co-insurance, combined lifetime maximum. Rider co-insurance, annual maximum. Dental recalls nine months for adults, six months for children. Group Life Insurance to Age The amount is equal to two (2) times the employee's annual salary as listed in Article salary scale to the nearest above. Employees on a receipt(s)waiver of premium benefit are covered for Group Life Insurance equal to two times the employee's annual salary as at the employee's last day of paid sick leave, to the nearest above. Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance equal to two (2) times the employee's salary. Long Term Disability Insurance equal to of salary up to age sixty to become effective after the expiration of sick day credits and the fifteen week disability Unemployment Insurance allocation. Should the fifteen (15) week period be altered, then the effective date should coincide with the altered benefits. A vision care package of per eligible member for each four (24) month period with a prescription change, for each (48) month period without a prescription change and maximum of allowance for contact lenses as prescribed by the plan. If an employee retires at age or takes the Factor option or an unreduced pension, the Employer agrees to provide dental and a major medical plan, as well as a drug plan up to age It is also agreed to provide a life insurance policy.

Accident and Sickness. 24:01 Sick Leave means The employees off duty as a result of an accident or occupational illness incurred in the performance of their duty shall be provided with free hospitalization and medical care and salary during such period off duty up to but not exceeding six months from the date of time an employee is permitted to be absent from work by virtue the accident or the commencement of being sickthe occupational illness. Provided however, disabled, quarantined, or because that nothing herein contained shall in any way limit the rights of a non-work related accident not covered the employees under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. 24:02 Sick Leave , or any other Act, Regulation or By-law passed by any body with competentjurisdiction for the protection or benefit of the employees. Provided however, in no case shall not mean any time absent from work due the total sums paid to an accident or disablement incurred, while employed and received by an employer other than employee, exclusive of hospitalization and medical care, exceed full salary of the City of Guelphemployee, where compensation for the period such employee was off duty. While an employee is on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits for up to six (6) months, the Employer will deduct from the employee's sick pay bank, when available, day for each day on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits that accident or disablement is being the employee would have been required to work by normal scheduling, and pay the employee an amount equal to the difference paid under by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act through Board and the other employer. 24:03 Notification Requirements employee's regular pay. Employees on Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Benefits for Absence: a period longer than six (a6) months shall, so long as they have sick day credits, have their Workplace Safety and Insurance payment supplemented by the Corporation to the extent of day sick pay for each day they would have been required to work by normal scheduling. Any payments under this clause shall cease upon any settlement of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Employees who are unable will be granted one and one half (1 days per month sick leave with unlimited accumulation days per year). An employee claiming sick leave shall report to assume the office of the Fire Chief as early as possible on the day which the sick leave is claimed. When an employee has been informed by their normal duties on any scheduled working day must notify physician that their supervisor prior to their normal starting illness shall extend over a period of time. Exceptions may be granted, if the employee has reasonable cause for not being able to contact their immediate supervisor prior to their normal start time. (b) Employees returning to work after an absence of four (4) or more working days in duration must notify their supervisor at least one day in advance shall report facts of their return to work date. (c) The supervisor shall be responsible for maintaining the contact telephone number for employees in the respective work areas. (d) The employee must call in on every day of absence unless an extended leave of absence for a specified period of time has been approved. Where the employee is hospitalized or confined for medical care the employee Chief as early as possible and shall not be required to call in on a daily basis. 24:04 Short Term Disability (STD): (a) A STD Plan, as per report again until the Master Benefit Contract, will be provided employee is prepared to all full time employees and return to work. Employees absent for part time employees hired to work twenty-one (21) hours three or more per weekdays may be required to present a Doctor's Certificate, upon returning to work, to their immediate Supervisor. The City’s Insurance Carrier will adjudicate claimsEmployer reserves the right to request a Doctor's Certificate at any time where sick pay is claimed, based Any employee of the Fire Department who sustains an injury on or off the STD plan in job shall present a Doctor's Certificate upon returning to duty stating that the Master Benefit Contractemployee is capable of performing their normal duties. STD is paid by Upon retirement from the Corporation to an employeeCambridge Fire Department, who is absent whether normal retirement, retirement due to non-work related illness, subject health or release from employment due to medical justification. (b) Full time employees, as of the 1st of the month following ratification of the contract, will have the remainder of the cumulative sick leave hours carried forward but the balance would have no value on retirement, death accident or termination of employment. (c) The carried forward cumulative sick leave hours could be used until depleted to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%). After the cumulative sick leave hours is depletedprolonged sickness, the employee may request will receive one half of their accumulated sick pay, not to top-up their STD with non-cumulative exceed six months' salary at the current rate. In the event of death while in the employ of the Employer fifty percent of the employee's accumulated sick hourspay, stat lieu banknot to exceed six (6) months pay, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (d) STD will be subject to medical justification both to commence an STD claim and to continue an STD claim, if the claim extends past the original approval date. (i) The waiting period for STD coverage will be from 1st day of accident or from 1st day of hospitalization or from the 3rd day of sickness. (ii) STD will shall be paid to a maximum of twenty-six (26) weeks. (iii) The STD benefit will be based on seventy-five percent (75%) the employee's executors or administrators, and shall form part of the employee’s standard base weekly pay's estate. Standard weekly pay is the weekly hours of work times the employee’s rate of pay at the time of 24:05 Applying for Short Term Disability (STD): (a) An Employee applying for STD benefits is required to complete the STD forms of the Insurer, available from the Human Resources Department. (b) The waiting period for illness, would be Days deducted from the employee’s non-cumulative sick hours. If the employee does not have sufficient non-cumulative sick hours, the employee may request to be paid from their stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (c) Employees applying for STD benefits shall receive up to four (4) weeks payment, while waiting on the adjudication by the Insurance Carrier. If the claim is denied, the employee may appeal the decision to the Insurance Carrier. (d) If an employee has cumulative sick leave hours they would be used until depleted credits will apply to top-up STD to one hundred percent (100%)working days only. If the employee has no cumulative sick leave hours, the employee may request to top- up their STD with non-cumulative sick hours, stat lieu bank, banked overtime, floater bank, vacation or personal days. (e) An employee The Employer shall be accompanied by the designated Union Representative in discussions regarding their claim and the employee does have grievance rights under Article 12:01, at Step 2. (f) Should the STD claim be denied after exhausting the above options, the employee shall be required to repay any overpayment monies at ten percent (10%) per pay. If the employee leaves the employment of the City, prior to repayment of the overpayment in full, the amount shall be deducted from their final pay. (g) Pension contributions, union dues, and all required deductions shall be deducted while the employee is on STD. If the employee is receiving seventy-five percent (75%) STD with no top-up, they would be required to sign an agreement to have a reserve established to buy back OMERS, on return to work. (h) Where the City or the Insurance Carrier requires the employee to supply a medical certificate to verify sick leave, the City agrees to reimburse the employee for one hundred (100%) assume of the cost of the medical certificate(s), upon submission premiums of a receipt(s).the following health coverage benefits: