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ARTICLE 16 - SERVICE CONNECTED INJURY AND ILLNESS
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16.01 Coverage for Workers' Compensation Waiting Period
An employee shall be allowed full pay at regular rate during the first seven (7) calendar days of absence when he/she suffers a work-related injury or contracts a service-related illness with a duration of more than seven (7) days. If the injury/illness has a duration of more than fourteen (14) days and the employee receives a Workers' Compensation benefits for the first seven (7) days, the employee will reimburse the Employer for the payment received under this article.
An employee may elect to take leave without pay, without exhausting accrued leave balances, pending determination of a Workers' Compensation claim.
If an employee elects to utilize his/her sick leave, personal leave, vacation leave or compensatory time balances pending determination of a Workers' Compensation claim, the Employer shall allow the employee to buy back those leave balances within two (2) pay periods after the Workers' Compensation benefits are received by the employee, or shall allow the employee to choose the automatic restoration of those leave balances through assignment of benefits.
16.02 Other Leave Usage to Supplement Workers' Compensation
Employees may utilize sick leave, personal leave or vacation to supplement Workers' Compensation benefits up to one hundred percent (100%) of the employee's regular rate of pay.
16.03 Occupational Injury Leave
Employees of the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the Ohio Veterans' Home, 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 C.)
16.04 Transitional Work Programs
Agencies and the Union may mutually develop transitional work programs designed to encourage a return to work by an employee receiving Workers’ Compensation benefits or Occupational Injury Leave (OIL). During the time an employee is in a transitional work program, the employee will be assigned duties which the employee is capable of performing based upon the recommendation of the employee’s attending physician. Upon request of the Employer, employees must participate in the transitional work program unless precluded from participation by their attending physician. An employee may request to participate in the transitional work program.