First Three Weeks. Any employee who is injured in the course of employment and whose injury is compensable under Workers’ Compensation shall be entitled to up to one hundred and twenty hours of leave with pay, provided the employee is adjudicated disabled; payments shall be made to the employee during the adjudication procedure, but if it is determined that the employee is not adjudicated disabled, the employee shall reimburse to the Town all payments made to him; the Town shall have the right to effect such reimbursement by equal payments to be deducted by the Town from the employee's salary. When the insurance company makes payment, the Town shall be entitled to receive from the Workers’ Compensation carrier all payments for wages for the period of time it compensates an employee, pursuant to Section 25 of the Workers' Compensation Law. Any medical or treatment appointments, meetings of the workers’ compensation board, or other related matters directly relating to the employee’s illness or injury may be charged to the 120 hours for that illness or injury. If the employee has used up the 120 hours, then the employee may use the employee’s accumulated sick leave credits in accordance with 9.5.4, below.
