Dear Members,
For those members that have been awarded a LOA please read the information below to decide if you wish to continue your WIP coverage for your return to work.
Please be aware that Air Canada’s absentee reporting team reviews absences daily. Air Canada monitors the 30 days to apply for WIP.
Members will be you contractually denied WIP due to an LOA of 16 or more days, without prepayment of your WIP premium. If you have not prepaid for the continuation of WIP coverage and upon return from leave you book-off and surpass 7 days of absence you will be contractually denied.
Air Canada will contact you via your corporate email with requests for information to substantiate your absence from work.
1. Leave of absence (LOA) prepayment of premiums
You will not be eligible for benefit consideration for a total disability commencing during a leave of absence, layoff, or suspension, unless you have elected to keep your coverage in force during the leave of absence, layoff, or suspension.
Prepayment of premiums is not required for an absence from the payroll of 15 calendar days or less. Prepayment of premiums is required for an absence from the payroll of 16 or more calendar days for one of the following reasons. You must prepay the required premium in full within 30 days of the absence to be eligible for benefit consideration immediately following the end of any of these periods.
If your leave of absence of 16 or more calendar days precedes your vacation and you have not prepaid the premium for that leave of absence in accordance with the Continuation of Coverage During Absence From Work section, coverage will not be reinstated until you return to active work. No prepayment of premiums is required when you are absent from work due to vacation.
The Manion Contact Centre number for prepayment inquiries is 1-866-532-8999.
2. You must see a medical professional within the first 14 days of work missed.
(This means that your appointment is while you were ill or injured. A return-to-work letter done on the last day of illness where the doctor sites you are fit to return to work and have been absent from X to Y, will not suffice for the application to WIP.)
If your illness or accident occurred during vacation or over your LOA that medical will be needed for the WIP application.
3. You must submit all the paperwork to acclaims@manionwilkins.com within 30 days of first day of work missed and ensure all documents are signed and dated.
If you are awaiting the physician’s statement, please submit the claimant’s statement, banking, disclosure, and all other medical documents that you have. State the date you gave your physician the documents and the anticipated completion date.
The application packages are linked below:
– Click HERE for the current English application package.
– Click HERE for the current French application package.