Transitional Work. An employee who experiences injury or illness that results in loss of time from work may request a transitional work assignment for up to ninety (90) calendar days performing any tasks within the University which need to be performed and can be performed within the restrictions medically determined for such employee. This management prerogative to determine whether transitional work is available is not subject to grievance or arbitration. A grievance contesting the availability of transitional work assignment may be processed, but only through mediation, issues of the availability of transitional work are deemed by the parties substantively inarbitrable. An employee required to perform a transitional work assignment shall be compensated either at the rate of the position which they held immediately prior to their injury or at the compensation level of a position in the bargaining unit of the same grade as the position in which they have been assigned during this transitional period to work. Upon medical verification of ability to perform their normal duties an employee shall be returned to their regular position.
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