Common use of Salary Continuation for Workers’ Compensation Claims Clause in Contracts

Salary Continuation for Workers’ Compensation Claims. Salary continuation is the uninterrupted payment of a permanent employee’s total rate of pay not to exceed four hundred and eighty (480) hours per Workers’ Compensation claim. An employee who incurs physical injuries or other disabilities in the performance of and arising out of State employment, and is not eligible for OIL, may be eligible for salary continuation. To be eligible, the employee must 1) follow his/her agency’s accident reporting guidelines, 2) be evaluated by an Approved Physician, as defined in Article 42, to determine if the injuries have so disabled the employee that the essential functions of his/her position cannot be performed, 3) show that the Employer is currently unable to provide an appropriate transitional work assignment, and 4) apply for Workers’ Compensation benefits within twenty (20) days of the incident. Effective for dates of injury occurring on or after November 1, 2009, an employee will be eligible for salary continuation. The salary continuation will end when (1) the 480 hours is exhausted; (2) the treating physician opines that it is no longer medically necessary for the employee to be off work; (3) the employee’s Workers’ Compensation claim is denied by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC);