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The Board of Trustees
of the Westfair Foods Ltd./United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1400
Health & Welfare Plan,
are pleased to announce
that all Employees who started to accumulate hours as of January1, 2004 are
now eligible for
benefits for absences
due to illness or injury that occur on or after January 1, 2005.
Member/Employee Only
Eligibility
A Member/Employee shall
be eligible for benefits on the first day of the month immediately
following a twelve (12) month waiting period during which the
Member/Employee has accumulated at least 500 hours in his/her Hour Bank.
Hour Bank Operation
A member/Employee shall
accumulate one (1) sick day credit for every 500 hours accumulated in the
Member/Employee’s Hour Bank up to a maximum of four (4) sick day credits or
2,000 hours.
Any hours reported for a
Member/Employee by the Employer, in excess of 2,000 hours, shall be
transferred to the general reserves of the Trust Fund.
A Member/Employee’s Hour
Bank shall be reduced by 500 hours for each sick pay credit paid in
accordance with the Benefit Plan.
Benefit
Period
Benefits shall commence
on the first complete day of absence from employment due to physical
conditions and shall be paid for each such day up to the number of sick day
credits accumulated in the Member’s/Employee’s Hour Bank or until recovery
or death, whichever occurs first.
Sick Pay Benefits are
payable according to the following scale:
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If your hourly rate of pay is:
Less
than $8.00 per hour
$8.01
to $16.00 per hour
$16.01
and higher per hour
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Sick Pay Benefit:
$25.00
per day
$35.00
per day
$45.00
per day
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Claim Forms
A supply of benefit forms
should be available at your store.
If additional benefit forms are required, please contact the Saskatoon office at 384-5787 within Saskatoon
or 1-800-274-4036 outside of Saskatoon
or the Administrator (refer below).
For more information and for claim
submission purposes,
The Administrator is as follows:
Coughlin & Associates Ltd.
P.O.
Box 764
Winnipeg,
MB
R3C 2L4
Toll free: 1-800-665-0122
Fax:
(204) 943-5998
E-mail:
webmaster@coughlin.ca
For a Downloadable Adobe .pdf/Printable
version of the claim form, click here.
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