injury leave definition

injury leave. A paid leave given to an employee due to absence from work caused by an accident, injury, or disease that occurs while performing or as a result of having performed the duties of their position. JOB DESCRIPTION: The written description of the duties, responsibilities and qualification requirements necessary and substantially related to an employee’s ability to perform the essential functions of a position. Reasonable accommodations to physical or mental limitations made known to the Town by the employee or applicant will be made to ensure that the qualified disabled individual has an equal opportunity in applying for the job, to enable qualified disabled employees to perform the essential functions of a job, and to allow disabled employees to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment. LABOR GRADE: A grouping of positions exhibiting comparable levels of duties, authority, and responsibilities so as to warrant the same range of compensation. LAYOFF: Involuntary separation of an employee resulting from a reduction in force due to lack of work, lack of funds or abolishment of the employee’s position. LEAVE: A period of authorized absence during which an employee does not work but is still considered to be in the employ of the Town. Leave may be authorized without pay.
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injury leave. ' means leave on full wages, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which the employee may be entitled under the Social Security Act, if the employee suffers personal injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, or by any of the diseases specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to the Social Security Act (being a disease due to the nature of his work) not due to any contributory negligence on his part or to any contravention of safety rules laid down by the management;
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injury leave means injury or line of duty illness arising from the employee's employment and/or occurring during the employee's work and for which the employee is statutorily entitled to receive compensation.
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Related to injury leave

  • paternity leave means a period of absence from work on leave by virtue of section 80A or 80B of the Employment Rights Act 1996;

  • FMLA Leave means a leave of absence, which the Company is required to extend to an Employee under the provisions of the FMLA.

  • Family leave means any leave taken by an employee from

  • Medical leave means leave from work taken by a covered individual that is made neces-

  • maternity leave means a period during which a woman is absent from work because she is pregnant or has given birth to a child, and at the end of which she has a right to return to work either under the terms of her contract of employment or under Part 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996;