OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Occupational injury leave shall be governed by the Rules promulgated on this subject and the Ohio Revised Code 5503 as they exist on March 26, 1989, except as modified in this Article. All employees in the bargaining unit shall be entitled to occupational injury leave.
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. 1. Occupational Injury occurs when an employee is unable to work because of an injury or illness incurred on the job. The injury or illness must be one that is covered by the applicable state Workers’ Compensation law, and must be verified in writing by the employee’s treating physician. Leaves of absence for Occupational Injury will be granted upon the employee’s presentation of written verification from a qualified doctor in accordance with the applicable state Workers’ Compensation law.
2. In the event of Occupational Injury, employees may use their own personal physician if they have registered that physician with the Company prior to the injury or illness. The Company will have the right to monitor the employee’s course of treatment through its own physician. The Company will pay the costs of any separate and additional physical exams it requires of an employee.
3. Full-time employees (excluding new hire probationary employees) will accrue paid Occupational Injury Leave of 8 hours per month of paid status, up to a maximum bank of 1200 hours. Part-time employees (excluding new hire probationary employees) will accrue paid Occupational Injury Leave monthly based on the ratio of their monthly straight-time paid hours to a full-time 40 hour work week, up to a maximum bank of 1200 hours.
a. No Occupational Injury Leave credit will accrue while an employee is in unpaid status, except AUTO.
b. Paid Occupational Injury Leave accrual is in addition to Sick Leave accrual, and may be used only for absence resulting from Occupational Injury Leave.
c. For each hour of Occupational Injury Leave pay or Workers’ Compensation pay the employee receives, an hour will be deducted from the employee’s Occupational Injury Leave bank.
d. Employees who exhaust their occupational injury bank may elect to convert any remaining sick bank hours into occupational injury hours.
4. Occupational Injury Leave pay will be based on the employee’s payroll rate of pay and scheduled hours. Such pay will be at a rate equal to the employee’s payroll rate of pay times the employee’s regularly scheduled hours, reduced by the amount of Worker’s Compensation pay the employee receives from the Company’s insurance carrier or the state.
5. If an employee’s employment ceases for any reason, all of the employee’s credit for Occupational Injury Leave will be cancelled, and no payment for such accumulated credit will be made at any time.
6. Employees will not be refused permission to return to work bec...
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Section 25.1. In the event of a serious bodily injury sustained or serious illness contracted as a direct result of performing an assigned or sworn function within the scope of the employee's authority, which illness or injury is not the result of "horseplay," sole negligence, recklessness or self-inflection by an employee, and upon the employee's application, the department may grant the employee, beginning on the eighth calendar day of absence or on the first day the employee is admitted to a hospital as an in-patient, whichever is earlier, Occupational Injury Leave (OIL) at the employee’s regular rate of pay for a period not to exceed thirty (30) work days per calendar year. The authorization of an OIL is a matter of administrative discretion, and the department will decide in each individual case if OIL is to be granted. The granting of an OIL shall not be unreasonably denied. A grievance concerning the failure of the Employer to grant an initial OIL shall be submitted directly to Step 2 of the grievance procedure.
Section 25.2. OIL is not available for injuries incurred during those times when the employee is engaged in non-law enforcement activities, administrative or clerical duties, is engaged in personal activity, including but not limited to physical fitness activities or is in the act of arriving to or departing from his/her work assignment. Illnesses considered common or routine among the general public (e.g., cold, flue, chicken pox, etc.) shall not entitle an employee to OIL. Unusual and serious illnesses (e.g., hepatitis, tuberculosis, etc.), and "stress-related" psychological and physical conditions and illnesses (e.g., neuroses, psychoses, depression, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, etc.) may entitle an employee to OIL only if incurred in accordance with the conditions set forth in Section 25.1 of this Article.
Section 25.3. An employee applying for OIL hereunder, shall authorize the release to the department of all medical information pertinent only to the occupational injury or illness possessed by the employee's treating physician(s) and treatment facility(ies), if so requested by the department, and/or shall agree to be examined by a licensed medical practitioner of University Health Services and/or one selected and paid for by the department.
Section 25.4. Any employee claiming an occupational illness or injury under this Article shall file an injury claim with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation as soon as possible. Upon ap...
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Employees of the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the Ohio Veteran’s Home, the Schools for the Deaf and Blind, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and the Department of Youth Services shall be entitled to a total of nine hundred sixty (960) hours of occupational injury leave a year with pay at regular rate. (See Appendix K).
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Employees of the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Developmental Disabilities, the Department of Veterans Services, Schools for the Deaf and Blind, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and the Department of Youth Services shall be eligible up to a maximum of nine hundred sixty (960) hours of Occupational Injury Leave per claim with pay at total rate. (See Appendix C) Where an aggravation of a pre-existing condition is alleged, the BWC/IC will determine if the injury results in a new claim or a continuation of an existing claim. Employees receiving OIL are in active pay status.
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Section 1. Employees injured while at work shall be given medical attention as dictated by the severity of the injury and the circumstances at the earliest possible moment and employees shall be permitted to return to work, if cleared to return to work by an appropriate medical provider without signing any release of liability, pending the disposition or settlement of any claims for damage or compensation. In the event that medical attention is necessary, such injured employees will be allowed to obtain medical attention without loss of time during the shift in which the injury occurred. It is the responsibility of the injured employee to report an injury to his/her immediate Supervisor during the shift in which the injury occurred.
Section 2. During any occupational injury leave, the employee will be responsible to meet all medical examinations and treatment requirement as established by the company’s insurance carrier and medical provider.
Section 3. The Company reserves the right to require employees returning from occupational injury leave to take an appropriate fitness-for-duty or functional capacity examination given by a provider designated by the Company. The scope of this fitness for duty or functional capacity examination will be limited to the original occupational injury sustained. This cost will be paid by the Company.
Section 4. An employee may retain any Workers Compensation benefits received by him/her as an award for partial or permanent injury which might exceed his/her total wages which would have been payable under this Article for the period of time lost from employment.
Section 5. An employee out on Workers Compensation upon request will be allowed to cash out any/all accrued vacation/sick time to supplement his/her income to the extent the employee has lost time.
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Bargaining unit members who are disabled from performing the duties of their own occupation with the University due to bodily injury sustained or serious illness contracted in the pursuit and performance of the duties of such member’s occupation, shall receive in lieu of the benefits conferred upon members by the sick leave provisions contained this Agreement, injury leave at their applicable rate of pay. The injury or serious illness must be sustained or contracted in the line of duty, and must not have resulted from reckless disregard or misconduct on the part of the bargaining unit member.
A. The University and the Lodge have jointly developed the following procedure for administering this Section:
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. 13.1 Each Employee shall be entitled to occupational injury leave (OIL) to a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) calendar days for each qualifying injury. OIL shall be granted to an Employee who suffers an on-the-job injury or illness from an identifiable incident that occurred in the performance of his/her official duties within the scope of his/her employment with the Employer and who is off work due to said injury for five (5) consecutive shifts. This wait period may be waived in the sole discretion of the City Manager.
13.2 In the event of a service-connected injury or illness incurred in the active discharge of duty, which injury is not the result of gross negligence, recklessness, self-infliction, or "horseplay" by the Employee, the Employer shall grant the Employee full pay for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) calendar days. This time shall not be charged to the Employee's Sick Leave time.
13.3 An Employee applying for OIL hereunder shall authorize the release to the Employer of all medical information pertinent only to the occupational injury possessed by the Employee's treating physician(s) and the treatment facility(ies), if so requested by the Employer or its designee, and/or shall agree to be examined by a licensed medical practitioner selected and paid for by the Employer. At that time, the physician shall also document an estimated return to work date for the injured Employee.
13.4 Any Employee claiming an occupational injury or illness under this Article shall file a claim with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (OBWC) as soon as possible. Upon approval of the claim by OBWC, an OIL granted after the fifth consecutive shift absence shall be made retroactive to the first day of absence, and any Sick Leave, Personal Leave, or Vacation Leave used by the Employee during the first five (5) workdays of absence shall be restored to his/her credit. The Employee shall remit to the Employer all income benefits paid by OBWC for the period during which the Employee received full pay from the Employer while on OIL. In the event the claim is denied by OBWC, the Employee shall revert to Sick Leave status and shall be charged with Sick Leave, Vacation Leave, and/or Personal Leave for all time paid by the Employer for OIL.
OCCUPATIONAL INJURY LEAVE. Section 32.1. This Article outlines the conditions under which Occupational Injury Leave (OIL) may be granted by the Employer and the procedures for administering its use.
Section 32.2. Any employee who becomes unable to perform duties as assigned by the Employer due to a physical injury or illness suffered in the discharge or performance of his official duties with the exception of gross negligence or intentional self-injury, shall be placed on Occupational Injury Leave. The employee will continue to receive his regular straight time daily rate of pay (the base rate of pay). This OIL is fully paid by the Employer and is in lieu of Workers’ Compensation (temporary total disability). An employee who applies for injury leave will apply to BWC for medical benefits only and not lost income benefits. The employee may apply for lost income benefits toward the end of the injury leave if it is known that the absence will continue beyond the paid leave. The employee may utilize sick time or other approved leave of absence to supplement Workers’ Compensation benefits. OIL will continue for a period not to exceed ninety (90) calendar days, without using any accumulated leave. The Employer, based solely upon specific medical evidence for each individual case, may extend an OIL for an additional ninety (90) calendar days. Failure of the Employer to extend OIL shall not be subject to the grievance procedure.
Section 32.3. The Employer has the right to review the employee’s physical and mental status each thirty (30) days of absence in order to determine the employee’s ability to return to work. In the event of a difference of opinion as to the employee’s mental or physical status between the employee’s physician and the Employer’s physician, the issue shall be submitted to a third physician mutually selected by the Benevolent Association and the Employer from a list submitted by the Academy of Medicine of Greater Cincinnati, whose decision regarding the ability of the employee to perform his regular duties shall be final and binding on both parties. The services of the third physician shall be paid by the Employer.
Section 32.4. An employee applying for an OIL shall authorize the release to the Employer of all medical information, pertinent only to the occupational injury or illness, possessed by the
Section 32.5. The Employer may assign the employee to transitional duty with the approval of, and within the limitation set by, the employee’s treating physician. The Emplo...
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