APPENDIX II
Cash Bickness Benefits under Social Security Schemes
in Selected Asian Countries
Part A
Employers' Liability Schemes
Country
BURMA
HONG KONG
Qualifying Conditions
Rate of Benefit
Waiting Period 1.
Maximum Duration
Full wage
3 days
6 months' service
180 days of service in the last year and 20 days of service in the 28 days preceding the illness.
50% of average daily earnings in the last 28 days.
3 days if the period of sickness is less than 7 days.
30 days in a year.
12 days in a year.
SINGAPORE
12 months' service
Ordinary rate of pay
14 days in a year if no hospitalisation is nec- essary, otherwise 60 days in a year.
BURMA
17 weeks of contri- butions in the last 26 weeks
INDIA
JAPAN/3.
13 weeks of contri- butions in the last 26 weeks.
Part B
Social Insurance Schemes
50% of earnings according to wage classes with a mi
miny2.
mum daily rate.
About 50% of earnings according to wage classes.
60% of insured wage according to wage
3 days/1.
2 days or
none if previous spell of sickness within 15 days.
3 days
26 weeks for one ill-
ness.
56 days in any period of 365 days plus up to 309 days for specified ser- ious diseases, or 124 days for certain other diseases.
6 months, or 18 months for tubercular diseases.
class.
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