19.01.01

Where an employee who has served more than six (6) months dies, there shall be paid to the deceased employee’s personal representative or, if there is no personal representative, to such person as the Employer determines, the sum of:

(a) any regular salary due;

(b) one-twelfth (1/12) of the deceased employee’s annual salary;

(c) the deceased employee’s salary for the period of vacation, leave-of-absence and CTB credits that have accrued; and

(d) an amount in respect of attendance credits or severance pay computed in the manner and subject to the conditions set out in Article 31, Termination Payments.

(e) Benefit Coverage for Dependents of Deceased Employees – The Health and Welfare and Dental benefit coverage for spouses and eligible dependents of a deceased employee shall continue for one (1) year from the date of death of the employee.

19.02

(a) The surviving spouse or dependents of the deceased employee may be paid up to two thousand dollars ($2,000) of the above without the prior consent of the Provincial Treasurer.

(b) Any indebtedness to the Crown on the part of the deceased member, such as overpaid (advance) salary, and overdrawn attendance credits, must be deducted from the above entitlement before payment is made.

(c) All net payments are subject to income tax.

19.03

Where an employee is killed in the line of duty, the Employer will reimburse the employee’s surviving spouse or dependents of a deceased employee for funeral/burial expenses up to a maximum amount of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000).

19.04

Where an employee is killed in the line of duty, the Employer shall provide pecuniary aid to the employee’s spouse.

(a) The objective of the aid is to provide a supplement to eligible governmental, legislated and pension plan payments which an employee’s spouse is eligible for from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (“WSIB”), the Canada Pension Plan (“CPP”) and the Ontario Public Service Pension Plan (“PSPP”) on behalf of the spouse and their children.

(b) The supplementary payment shall be equal to the difference between total amount which the employee’s spouse is eligible to receive and the after-tax salary being paid to the employee at the date of the employee’s death, calculated monthly. The employee’s spouse shall co-operate by providing the necessary information required to determine these amounts.

(c) The award shall be adjusted, as required, to reflect the after-tax salary rate that would have been paid to the employee had they remained an employee of the Ontario Provincial Police at the rank or classification they held at the date of their death. The award shall continue until the employee’s earliest unreduced pension date or until their spouse remarries or enters into a common-law marriage, whichever date is earlier.

(d) If an employee is killed in the line of duty, the employee’s surviving spouse and eligible dependents shall have the option to make elections, which may include access to be covered by the OPPA’s insured benefits plan, unless the spouse and eligible dependents are covered for insured benefits as a survivor pension recipient.

Should the surviving spouse and eligible dependents not be entitled to insured benefits coverage as a survivor pension recipient, their entitlement shall continue until the date that would have been the employee’s earliest unreduced pension date or until the spouse remarries or enters into a common-law marriage, whichever date is earlier, and until the dependents are no longer defined as eligible dependents under the benefits plans.

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