Alternate Duty. (A) Where an employee is eligible for disability leave with pay under the Rules of the State Personnel System as a result of an injury in the line of duty, and is temporarily unable to perform his normal work duties, the Executive Director or designee shall give due consideration to any request by the employee to be temporarily assigned substitute duties within the employee’s medical restrictions. This shall have no effect on the agency’s ability to make a different assignment based upon current medical opinion. (B) Where an employee is temporarily unable to perform his normal work duties, but is given a reasonable prognosis to return to full duty within the near future, the Executive Director or designee shall give due consideration to any request by the employee to be temporarily assigned duties within the employee’s medical restrictions. This shall have no effect on the agency’s ability to make a different assignment based upon current medical opinion. (C) Where an employee suffers an injury in the line of duty, and is permanently unable to perform his normal work duties, the Executive Director or designee shall attempt to reasonably accommodate any written request by the employee to be assigned to a different vacant position in a different classification within the employee’s medical restrictions. (D) A complaint concerning this Section may be grieved in accordance with Article 6 of this Agreement up to and including Step 3. The decision of the DMS shall be final and binding on all parties.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Successor Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
