Local 134 Agreement

ARTICLE XV    ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS

The University agrees to provide Accident and Sickness coverage for employee's with one (1) or more years of continuous service. Following is a general description of the benefits and conditions of this Plan:

1. Any eligible employee who is absent from work because of a non-work connected accident or illness will be entitled to benefit payments beginning the fifteenth (15th) calendar day of such absence or at the completion of time covered by accrued sick leave whichever is the longer period.

2. The benefit payment will be sixty (60%) of basic straight-time hourly earnings. Such benefits to continue so long as the employee is disabled until the end of a thirteen (13) week period limit that begins with the first day of absence, or until Long-Term Disability benefits begin, whichever is later, but not to exceed twenty-six (26) weeks.