Short Term Disability
Albion College provides salary continuation to those full-time
employees temporarily disabled due to a non-occupational accident or
illness including, in the case of a female employee, pregnancy and
pregnancy- related conditions.
An employee shall be eligible for full salary continuation and
partial salary continuation as follows:
1.Full salary will continue for two (2) weeks for each year of
service up to ten (10) years of service, and three (3) weeks for each
year of service over ten (10) years of service, up to a maximum of 26
weeks (6 months).
2.Partial salary will continue at fifty percent (50%) of an
employee's monthly salary for employees with less than five (5) years
of service, which shall be payable after the exhaustion of the
payments in step 1, up to a maximum of 26 weeks (6 months).
3.Partial salary continues at sixty percent (60%) of an employee's
monthly salary for employees with more than five (5) years of service,
which shall be payable after the exhaustion of the payments in step 1
up to a combined maximum of twenty-six weeks.
4.Full and partial salary continuation payments will be computed on
the basis of the employee's salary at the time the medical leave
commenced.
5.Once an eligible employee recovers from a disability and returns
to full-time work, the employee shall again be eligible for salary
continuation.
6.Subsequent disabilities arising from the same cause or a
recurrence of a previous disability will be considered a new
disability only if the employee has returned to work full time for a
minimum of two (2) weeks.
7.If an employee receives or is entitled to receive benefits from
the disability provision of an individual "No Fault"
automobile policy, benefits payable will be reduced by that amount of
benefits the employee receives or is entitled to receive from the
"No Fault" automobile policy.
8.The College will require the employee to furnish
written statements from a qualified physician specifying the nature and
extent of the disability.
Long Term Disability
Albion College provides salary continuation at sixty
percent (60%) of an employee's monthly salary for employees who are
eligible to participate in the Long-Term Total Disability Plan.
The one-year waiting period is waived for new employees
who, within three months prior to their employment, were insured through
their previous employer under a group policy providing income benefits
for a minimum of five years during total disability due to sickness.
