Benefits Handbook

If you are out on STD leave as of the effective date of any annual merit increase, you will not receive the increase until your return to work at the end of the STD leave, at which time the increase will be retroactive to the normal effective date of the increase. If you are out on approved STD leave for the full 26-week period and do not return to work at the end of that time, you will not receive any merit increase.