Whenever an on the-job injury or illness causes an employee to take time off work for treatment and/or recuperation (“time loss”) under the State Workers’ compensation program, that time will be charged to the employee’s sick leave balance, if and, until the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries has determined whether the claim is covered under the program. If the injury is covered by Workers’ Compensation, then the dollar amount of the time loss award will be divided by the employee’s normal hourly rate of pay to determine the number of hours which will be restored to the employee’s sick leave balance. If the ruling is that the time loss is not covered by Workers’ Compensation, the employee will continue to be charged sick leave for the time lost due to a bona fide injury or illness. If the employee exhausts all sick leave, then the absence will be charged against all other leave balances until exhausted. Thereafter such leave shall be nonpaid.
Whenever an on the-job injury causes a regular employee to take time off work for treatment and/or recuperation ("time loss"), that time is charged to the employee's sick leave balance, if any, until the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries has determined whether the claim is covered under the Worker's Compensation program. If the injury is covered by the Worker's Compensation program, the dollar amount of the time loss award will be divided by the employee's regular rate of pay, during the time loss period, to determine the number of hours which will be restored to the employee's sick leave balance.
