Director of the Employees' State Insurance
Corporation and obtained cash sickness benefit for the
period covered by the Medical Certificate issued by the
Civil ... prescribes the form of claim for
sickness or temporary disablement. An insured person
intending to claim sickness benefit has to submit the said
form
submitted that the respondent was not entitled to a sickness or extended sickness benefit under Regulation 53 of the Act because it is only when ... evidence of the respondent's sickness. The respondent is entitled to the sickness and extended sickness benefit under the Act and Regulation. The Employees
respect of those days of sickness leave for which the
workmen has actually availed of the sickness benefit ... Corporation on account of
his sickness, a deduction of half the wages corresponding to
the sickness benefit could be made by the employer and that
spell of
sickness following, at an interval of not more than 15 days,
the spell of sickness for which sickness benefit was last
paid ... spell of sickness
following, at an interval of not more than 15 days, the
spell of sickness for which the sickness benefit was last
paid
employee during the period the employee is in receipt of sickness benefit or maternity benefit, nor shall he, except as provided under the regulations, dismiss ... period of sickness. It is also clear that during that period the employee must be in receipt of sickness benefit. These are the two postulates
spell of sickness following, at an interval of not more than 15 days, the spell of sickness for which the sickness benefit was last paid ... that the benefit would cease to apply when the benefits of the Act became available to the workmen. The benefit of sick leave was therefore
benefits provided under the Act.
Petitioner/applicant in relief to the application has claimed
"dependant benefits" and "medical benefits ... shall be entitled to receive such benefit at the daily
standard benefit rate for the period of his sickness:
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In this case, the contribution
serve and the object behind the Act, i.e. to extend
sickness benefits and to relieve the employee from occupa-
tional hazards consistent with ... interpretation would
feed injustice in perpetuity denying to the employees of
sickness benefit etc. under the Act, which would be avoided,
lest the purpose
they may not be entitled to
sickness benefit in case their employment is less than the
benefit period or contribution period, it does not appear ... Apart from sickness
benefit there are other benefits under the
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Act including disablement benefit to which a casual
employee will be entitled under section
reduce the benefits payable to him under the conditions of his service even if those benefits are similar to the benefits conferred ... respect of those days of sick leave for which the workman has actually availed of
the sickness benefit. Benefits which are
available under
