Pay and benefits

At Fraser Health, your sick bank acts as your short term disability plan. If you need to be off work and your illness or injury is not part of a WorksafeBC claim, you will be paid from your available sick bank. 

If you do not have enough time in your sick bank, you may need to go on an unpaid leave until you return to work or transition to long term disability.

For more information about sick time, read Sick time - know your numbers. To check that status of your sick bank, log in to myFHinfo.

Your time-card will be coded as ‘unpaid sick time’, which draws from your leave of absence (LOA) bank. At that time, you may be eligible for Medical Employment Insurance through Service Canada.

• Your Record of Employment (ROE) can be obtained through myFHinfo, under the “Request My Information” tab.
• Your ROE will not be processed until the end of the pay period that your paid sick leave depletes.
• You are responsible for reporting any earnings after your ROE has been issued to Service Canada. 
• If you have questions about your ROE, contact Fraser Health's payroll department.

Your absence and disability management contact will guide you through this process. Connect with them directly if you have specific questions. Learn more about long term disability.

If you are on paid sick time, all employer-paid benefits will continue as usual. 

While on unpaid leave, your leave of absence (LOA) bank is depleted. Once you have depleted your LOA bank, your employer paid health and welfare benefits will cease. At this point, you will have the option of continuing benefit coverage by paying for the premiums yourself.

You will be sent a 'Benefit Costing Letter', which you can access on myFHinfo under 'Notifications'.

If you are on leave and your LOA bank has depleted and you have not received a Benefit Costing Letter, email People Information and Benefits or call 604-520-4420.

• Benefit coverage will be cancelled if you do not return the Benefit Costing Letter within the deadline on the letter.
• Benefit coverage will be cancelled if you decline to pay for the premiums as outlined on your Benefits Costing letter.
• If you have questions about when reinstatement of employer paid benefit coverage will occur, email People Information and Benefits or call 604-520-4420. 

Visit Pensions BC to access either the Municipal Pension Plan or Public Service Pension Plan websites. 

• If you are on paid sick leave, long term disability, a WorksafeBC claim or a return to work plan, you will continue to accrue pensionable service.

• If you are on an unpaid leave of absence or using unpaid sick time, you will not accrue pensionable service. However, you may be able to buy service for the time you took off work on an approved leave.  To review your options, contact Fraser Health's Benefits department. 
• To view your unpaid leave of absence or unpaid sick hours, log on to myFHinfo.
• If you are a casual employee on a WorksafeBC claim and were a contributor to the pension plan, you will not accrue pensionable service.