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Ford Office Benefits

Benefits:  
Chiropractor After OHIP $220 used up, $9.65 per visit
Cost of Living Allowance (COLA)  
Chronic Care $26 / day, 60 days lifetime
Dental Plan - 100% for most normal procedures
   ($2200 maximum for any 12 month period)
- 50% for fixed bridgework, dentures, and
   orthodontics ($2,800 lifetime under age 21)
Disability

Disability (long term - after 63 days)

                                 Ford                Maritime
                           Salary  Cola      Salary  Cola
- 1st 21 days    100%   100% 
- 22 to 63 days   50%     50%     50% 
- next 10 months                          60%
- up to = to seniority                    50%
Drug Plan $0.35 copay 
Durable Equipment I.E.: hospital bed, crutches, canes, lifts, walkers, wheelchairs, bedpans, oxygen sets, ulcer care equipment, glucose monitors, tub rails ($100 lifetime),
insulin pump ($800 max.), 
orthotics inserts (up to $400 per 3 yr. period)
Educational Assistance Benefit $1300 per school term
Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)  
Hearing Aids (by prescription) - acquisition once every 36 months
- repair
Holidays: paid in addition to statutory days 1. Monday after Easter
2. Friday before Victoria Day
3. Civic Holiday
4. Friday before Labour Day
5. Christmas shutdown: 12/23/02 to 1/1/03
                                              12/24/03 to 1/2/04
                                              12/24/04 to12/31/04
Hospital room accommodation semi-private room coverage
Leaves:
     Adoption
     Maternity
     Parental

10 weeks with top up to 65%
16 weeks with top up to 75%
10 weeks with top up to 65%
Legal Fee

(employee, spouse, dependent children under 26 living at home)

(coverage varies based on schedule)

- wills and estates
- real estate
- tenants (only) rights
- family law
- civil litigation
- criminal and motor vehicle
- consumer / debtor
Life Insurance - *24x your monthly salary
- retirees 65+: service x 1.5 x *above amount
Nursing Home (OHIP) top up to Green Shield semi-private
Osteopath $500 per calendar year
Out of province hospital, surgical and medical  expenses = normal OHIP coverage
Orthotic Shoes (custom made) prescription req'd, $750 per year
Overtime - over 8 hours per day: 1.5x the hourly rate
- Saturday: 1.5x the hourly rate
- Sundays and Holidays are voluntary
- Sundays and Holidays: 2x the hourly rate
Paid Educational Leave (C.A.W. - P.E.L.) entitlement based on funding available
Private Duty Nursing annual max of $10,000
Prosthetic Appliances I.E.: artificial limbs, support devices, ostomy sets, wigs/hairpieces in special conditions
Psychologist (counseling only) $50 per visit, $500 per calendar year
Retirement Plan (retirement begins the first day of the  month following the attainment of age 65)

Salary Grade 8+   = Code D

Time  Frame                 Code D
9/15/99 - 9/30/00            $3,000
10/1/00 - 9/30/01            $3,075
10/1/01 - 9/30/02            $3,150
10/1/02 - 9/30/03            $3,225
10/1/03 - 9/30/04            $3,300
10/1/04 and after           $3,370
Speech Therapy (after all Government
                                 entitlements exhausted)
$400 per person lifetime
Survivor Benefits 60% of Basic pension, for life, (cost 5%+/-)
Tuition Refund (employee)
(per year maximum)
$2000 Business/High/Trades/Vocational
$3250 University/College 
  $200 For books
Vacation Schedule: Seniority as of Dec. 1,
                                       (previous year)
Before June 1st (current year) - 8.5 days
1 year but less than 2 -       23 days
2 years but less than 3 -     24 days
3 years but less than 10 -   30 days
10 years but less than 20 - 35 days
20 years or more -                40 days
Vacation Bonus (paid 6/30 each year) $1500 full  OR = % of vacation entitlement
Vision Plan
(glasses every 24 months)
(contacts every 12 mo. if medically req'd)
(diabetics as req'd with prescription change)
- Single Vision Lenses              $170 
- Bi-focal Lenses                         $225
- Multi-focal Lenses                    $295
- Contact Lenses                        $180
- Repairs covered over and above
- Balance usable toward 2nd paid
Laser Eye Surgery (Lifetime) - $295 Max.
Wages (3% per year increases) - October 1/2002, 10/1/ 2003, 10/1/2004

 

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