“Wages” does not include the amount of any payment, including any amount paid by an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to provide for any payment, made to or on behalf of an employee or any of his or her dependents under a plan or system established by an employer which makes provision for his or her employees generally, or for his or her employees generally and their dependents, or for a class or classes of his or her employees, or for a class or classes of his or her employees and their dependents, on account of any of the following:
(a) Sickness or accident disability, but in the case of payments made to an employee or any of his or her dependents, this subdivision shall exclude from “wages” only those payments which are received under a workers’ compensation law.
(b) Medical or hospitalization expenses in connection with sickness or accident disability.
(c) Death.
(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 847, Sec. 3.5.)