ARTICLE 43
HOLIDAYS

43.1:    Holiday pay shall be paid at the rate $124.92 for each authorized holidayin 2009 and $127.42 in 2010.  Holiday pay shall increase by the same percentage rate as wages each year of contract. 

43.2:    Payment for the following holidays shall be made in a lump sum payment on or about the fifteenth (15th) of November:

New Year's Day
Washington's Birthday
Good Friday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Friday after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
New Year's Eve
Martin Luther King Day

43.3:    If an employee is on layoff or any unpaid leave of absence, he/she shall not receive holiday pay for that day.

 

ARTICLE 44
WORKER'S COMPENSATION

44.1:    Pursuant to Michigan Law, the Employer provides, at its sole expense, Worker's Compensation coverage for each employee covered by this Agreement.

44.2:    On-the-job injuries must be reported immediately and medical assistance obtained within twenty-four (24) hours of the injury.

44.3:    An employee unable to continue or adequately perform the assigned work due to a job-related injury, may be eligible for Worker's Compensation under the State of Michigan, Worker's Compensation Laws.

44.4:    On the day of a job-related injury, the Township shall pay the employee the normal regular straight-time hourly rate for such time lost.

44.5:    Employees receiving Worker's Compensation benefits for injuries and/or illnesses arising out of and in the course of their employment with Delta Township will, for a period of up to twenty-four (24) consecutive calendar months, be paid that portion of their regular straight time earnings which, together with such compensation, equals their regularly scheduled earnings, except, that said employees shall not be entitled to receive food allowance or holiday pay.  The employees' regular earnings and their supplemental pay shall be frozen at the rate of pay they received when they last worked before the leave began.

44.6:    However, if an employee is employed but his/her worker's compensation benefit and pay from his/her current employment together total less than his/her pre-leave regular straight time earnings, then the employee may utilize his/her accrued sick leave and vacation hours to supplement the worker's compensation payment.

44.7:    An employee shall continue to accrue vacation and sick leave for the first twenty-four (24) months.

44.8:    At the end of the first twenty-four (24) month period, employees shall not be entitled to receive any supplement pay from the Township.  The Township will pay to the employee a lump sum payment of all accrued and unpaid leave and the employee's employment will be terminated.

44.9:    Employees must submit a copy of any Worker's Compensation payments they receive before the Employer is obligated to apply the provisions of this Article.

 

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