Temporary total disability.
Article 189
ART. 189. Temporary total disability. — (a) Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, any employee under this Title who sustains an injury or contracts sickness resulting in temporary total disability shall for each day of injury or fraction thereof, or for each day or fraction thereof after the third day of sickness, be paid by the System an income benefit equivalent to ninety per cent of his average daily salary credit, subject to the following conditions: (1) The daily income benefit shall not be less than two pesos and fifty centavos nor more than sixteen pesos nor paid for a continuous period longer than one hundred twenty days and (2) The System shall be notified of the injury or sickness. The payment of such income benefit shall be in accordance with the regulations of the Commission: Provided, That the employee shall not be entitled to avail himself of the income benefit under this Title and his sick leave credits at the same time: Provided, further, That all sick leaves earned by him shall be preserved to his credit if he has not been paid his salary during such leave or absence.