Secondly, on this issue, in the "Notice on the Provisions of Medical Treatment Period for Enterprise Employees' Sickness or Non-work-related Injury" issued by the Ministry of Labor (No.479 issued by the Ministry of Labor [1994]), the corresponding detailed provisions were made:
1. As stipulated in Article 2 of this Law, the medical treatment period refers to the period when employees of an enterprise stop working due to illness or non-work-related injuries and do not terminate their labor contracts.
2. Article 3 of the Act provides that,
When enterprise employees need to stop medical treatment due to illness or non-work-related injuries, they will be given a medical treatment period of 3 months to 24 months according to their actual working years and working years in their own units:
(a) the actual working experience is less than ten years, and the working experience in this unit is less than five years, which is three months; More than five years is six months.
(two) the actual working experience of more than ten years, less than five years in this unit for six months, more than five years and less than ten years for nine months; 10 years or more 15 years or less is 12 months; For more than fifteen years and less than twenty years, 18 months; Twenty years or more is 24 months.
According to Article 6 of the Notice of the Ministry of Labor (No.479 issued by the Ministry of Labor [1994]), during the treatment of employees' illness or non-work-related injuries, during the prescribed medical treatment period, enterprises shall pay their sick pay or disease relief funds in accordance with relevant regulations, which may be lower than the local minimum wage, but shall not be lower than 80% of the minimum wage standard.