Workers Compensation Program BAM SECTION 1400 Objectives Learn

Workers’ Compensation Program BAM SECTION 1400

Objectives: • Learn about Workers’ Compensation • Understand the responsibilities of all the interested parties • Discuss the basic benefits • Get resources and information about other training courses

What is workers’ comp? Why do you care?

1401 General Information • All employers in California, including the state, must provide workers’ compensation benefits to employees who sustain a work related injury or illness. • Labor Code 3700

General Information, cont. • Need written policies for an injury and illness prevention program (IIPP) • Labor Code 6401. 7 • And a reporting system for job related injuries, illnesses or death

1402 Employee’s Responsibility • Read and understand all materials provided • Guide to Workers’ Compensation for New State of California Employees • Provided at hire and when claim filed • Pre-designate personal physician in writing before injury occurs

GUIDE TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Employee’s Responsibility • Report all incidents to supervisor • Get medical treatment if needed • Go to pre-designated provider or posted provider • Report all absences and provide medical substantiation

Notice to Employees

1403 Employer’s Responsibility • Post or provide forms • Provide the workers’ comp claim form and notice of potential eligibility to employee within 1 day of knowledge • Arrange for first medical treatment o. The posted MPN provider o. Pre-designated physician

Employee’s Claim Form

1403 ER Responsibility • Complete the Employer’s 1 st Report of Injury • Send 1 st report to SCIF in 5 days • Provide all necessary forms and information o. Guides (Workers’ Comp & MPN) o“I’ve just been injured on the job, what happens now? ”

Guide to the MPN (e 3851)

1404 Personnel Office Responsibility • Give employee the Industrial Disability Leave with Supplementation Information and Benefits Selection form (STD 618 s) • 15 days to decide to supplement • Pay IDL timely after State Fund notifies you of the time • Maintain good records

Payroll Training • Workers’ Compensation: The Beginning Steps (2 days) • Workers’ Compensation Documentation (3 days) • ppsdtraining@sco. ca. gov • 916 -322 -0683 • 1 -800 -735 -2929 (TTY)

1405 State Fund’s Responsibility • • • Case management Investigation Liability decisions Benefit delivery MPN network Legal representation

1406 BENEFIT$ • • • Medical Temporary Disability Permanent Disability Supplemental Job Displacement Death

Temporary Disability • Payments for lost wages • Everyone serves a 3 day waiting period unless disabled > 14 days, hospitalized or victim of assault • ATO on DOI

Temporary Disability (TD) • • • Paid by State Fund every 14 days Limited to 104 compensable weeks 2/3 of average weekly wage 2017 Maximum is $1172. 57 2017 Minimum is $175. 88 PML 2004 -026

Industrial Disability Leave (IDL) • Paid in lieu of TD to Cal. PERS and Cal. STRS members • Based on current wages • No maximum or minimum • First 22 working days = full net salary • Then 2/3 gross salary • PML 2002 -060 and PML 2014 -025

Enhanced IDL (EIDL) • Check bargaining unit contract for specific classes and conditions • Subject to the department’s appointing power or designee • Continuation of IDL • Full net salary for up to 3 years

4800 and 4800. 5 Time • • Department of Justice Officers Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Wardens CHP officers Full GROSS salary for up to one year

More to Learn… • The Life of a Workers’ Compensation Claim • 6 hours long!! o. April 3 o. May 1 • Permanent Disability • Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit • Death

1407 Forms and Brochures • Link from BAM to State Fund and Cal. HR Workers’ Compensation Program • Ask your Return to Work Coordinator • Ask US!! workcomp@calhr. ca. gov

Did you: • Learn about Workers’ Compensation? • Understand the responsibilities of all the interested parties? • Discuss the basic benefits? • Get resources and information about other training courses?