Duty Injury Leave. Employees shall be allowed injury leave with pay for each service connected injury (hereinafter "Duty Injury Leave"), provided such injury is reported to the employee's immediate supervisor within six (6) hours of such injury but under unusual conditions, no later than twenty-four (24) hours. In the absence of the employee's immediate supervisor, the injury may be reported to any management person within the Department. The Chief and Human Resources Department shall approve Duty Injury Leave for employees who qualify for such under the terms herein. A report of the cause of all injuries signed by the employee, immediate supervisor, the division and department heads, shall be submitted to the Human Resources Department within two (2) days of the date of the injury, on forms designed and furnished by the City. The Safety Director or designee may arrange to have the injured person examined by a qualified physician other than the employee's own personal physician and if, in the judgment of the Safety Director, the injury was sustained while on duty with the City of Gahanna Police Department and prevents the employee from working, the member shall be continued on the payroll and be paid for a period not to exceed six (6) calendar months; additional increments of thirty (30) days may be granted by the Safety Director. A report made by the physician designated by the City, if applicable, shall be filed in the employee's personnel record within three (3) months. If the physician designated by the City is of the opinion that the employee is capable of performing his or her regular duties, the employee shall be informed by the Safety Director to return to work on the first regular assigned work day following the physician's report to the Safety Director. If the physician recommends that the employee be granted light duties for a period of time, the employee shall be so notified, and may, at the City's discretion, be recalled to work and given whatever light work is available for as long as necessary in the judgment of the physician. If the employee is not recalled for light duty work, duty injury leave shall continue per the conditions herein. If the employee is injured to the extent that he or she is unable to perform his/her regular duties after the maximum injury leave allowance, but is capable of performing other duties which are available to him or her in the municipal service, the Department Head, to whom he or she will be assigned upon his return, will submit...
Duty Injury Leave. 29.01 Whenever an employee is injured due to his participation in firefighting duties of a high risk nature, including ambulance calls and training in firefighting procedures of a hazardous nature, whereby serious injuries or xxxxx are sustained through the collapse of buildings or parts thereof, or because of other accidents which occurred at a fire scene or during response in a fire vehicle, the employee shall be eligible for injury leave in accordance with the provisions of this Article. In those cases where the Employer appeals a claim, and where an employee’s injury prohibits him from working “light-duty” or “TWL”, and the only medically approved treatment is surgery or an MRI is required to determine the type of treatment and injury, the one hundred eighty (180) day time limit be extended from the date of the Employer’s appeal to the date of initial determination by Workers’ Compensation, provide the approval was to delayed by the employee or employee’s physician.
Duty Injury Leave. Duty Injury Leave With Pay: Employees who are off work, due to a work related illness, injury or disability shall be allowed a paid duty injury leave at full pay of up to 3 calendar days per year. At the conclusion of this 3-day leave period, they shall be eligible to receive workers’ compensation pay, in the manner and to the extent such is provided and required by applicable law. It is the responsibility of all employees requesting paid duty injury leave to properly notify or cause notification to be made to their supervisor as soon as is reasonably possible, and to complete or cause to be completed any required duty injury and/or accident report forms. It is understood and agreed by the City and the Union that the duty injury leave period shall not commence until the start of the next regularly scheduled work day immediately following the work day during which the duty related injury occurred. Furthermore, and in this same regard, when employees who suffer duty-related injuries are authorized to leave work because of such injuries, they shall nonetheless, receive their regular pay and benefits for that full work day.
Duty Injury Leave. When an Employee is injured in the line of duty while actually working for the Employer, the Employee shall be eligible for leave with compensation not to exceed ninety (90) calendar days, provided the Employee files for Worker’s Compensation and signs a waiver assigning to the Employer those sums of money (temporary total benefits) the Employee would ordinarily receive as their weekly compensation as determined by law for those number of weeks the Employee receives benefits under this Article. An Employee who is injured in the line of duty shall be permitted to leave work immediately to receive medical treatment, and shall notify their supervisor prior to leaving, and shall not suffer loss of that shift’s pay as a result.
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