With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month. Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long. Also, how long do you allow light duty? Thanks. Lu Blankenship Risk Management Richland County office: 419-774-6318 fax: 419-774-3581 mobile: 419-564-1469 ***The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***
Certain CBAs and regular county policy have 90 days of wage continuance. Not all elected officials that are non-union provide this though. It is beneficial in some ways however in some departments is abused due to language interpretations and inability to change the language. We don’t do more than 90 days as that is the time frame for most soft tissue injuries for moderate to heavy work can heal to the point of return to work (when receiving appropriate treatment). Light duty varies by department. Some is another 90 days with stipulations, some are 60 and 30 and some don’t have it. Cathy Jones Risk Manager From: CORSA-broadcast [mailto:corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org] On Behalf Of Blankenship, Lu Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:08 PM To: CORSA Broadcast Email Subject: [CORSA-broadcast] Wage Continuation With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month. Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long. Also, how long do you allow light duty? Thanks. Lu Blankenship Risk Management Richland County office: 419-774-6318 fax: 419-774-3581 mobile: 419-564-1469 ***The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***
Here is the response from our HR Administrator in Belmont: We do not pay wage continuation unless it is in a CBA (ie Injury leave in our Sheriff's department). Otherwise we do allow and approve C-18's to recoup sick time used while an employee is off. On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Jones, Cathy <CJones@mahoningcountyoh.gov> wrote:
Certain CBAs and regular county policy have 90 days of wage continuance. Not all elected officials that are non-union provide this though. It is beneficial in some ways however in some departments is abused due to language interpretations and inability to change the language.
We don’t do more than 90 days as that is the time frame for most soft tissue injuries for moderate to heavy work can heal to the point of return to work (when receiving appropriate treatment).
Light duty varies by department. Some is another 90 days with stipulations, some are 60 and 30 and some don’t have it.
*Cathy Jones*
Risk Manager
*From:* CORSA-broadcast [mailto:corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org] *On Behalf Of *Blankenship, Lu *Sent:* Friday, September 29, 2017 2:08 PM *To:* CORSA Broadcast Email *Subject:* [CORSA-broadcast] Wage Continuation
With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month.
Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long.
Also, how long do you allow light duty?
Thanks.
Lu Blankenship
Risk Management
Richland County
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We do not pay wage continuation. Our transitional work program typically does not last longer than 90 days and the injured worker has to provide proof of sufficient progress within the transitional work timeframe. Thanks! Lori Larson, Risk Manager Ashtabula County Commissioners 25 West Jefferson Street, 3rd Floor Jefferson, Ohio 44047 Phone: 440.576.3649 Fax: 440.576.3502 From: CORSA-broadcast [mailto:corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org] On Behalf Of Blankenship, Lu Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:08 PM To: CORSA Broadcast Email <corsa-broadcast@corsa.org> Subject: [CORSA-broadcast] Wage Continuation With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month. Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long. Also, how long do you allow light duty? Thanks. Lu Blankenship Risk Management Richland County office: 419-774-6318 fax: 419-774-3581 mobile: 419-564-1469 ***The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***
In Erie County we pay wage continuation. And while the general policy guideline may be for one month, each case is evaluated independently and we have paid wage continuation for substantially longer periods when it was economically beneficial for us to do so. Similarly with light-duty – there is no hard and fast cut-off. We think of light-duty as “transitional” and look for progress toward transitioning to regular duty. It is not rare to go more than a month, but often we can accommodate restrictions that still allow employees to work full-duty. For example, a MEDCO lifting restriction is not a problem if the job doesn’t require lifting. David W. Miller, MA HHA Erie County Loss Control Coordinator 2900 Columbus Ave, Suite 210 Sandusky, OH 44870 (419) 627-7581 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted (including any attachments) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or Protected Health Information (PHI) which is personal information about an individual’s health care. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or transmission of the PHI without the individual’s consent is strictly prohibited and may subject you to penalties under federal and state law. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this message and all attachments. From: CORSA-broadcast [mailto:corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org] On Behalf Of Blankenship, Lu Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:08 PM To: CORSA Broadcast Email <corsa-broadcast@corsa.org> Subject: [CORSA-broadcast] Wage Continuation With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month. Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long. Also, how long do you allow light duty? Thanks. Lu Blankenship Risk Management Richland County office: 419-774-6318 fax: 419-774-3581 mobile: 419-564-1469 ***The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***
Hardin County considers both wage continuation and light duty on a claim by claim basis. Just as an ankle sprain is different from a broken wrist and different from a dog bite, so too is the length of time needed by the injured worker for light duty. We will attempt to keep an injured employee at work under the medical provider’s restrictions on light duty rather than at home in every possible claim. Wage continuation depends on the department head, who may be an elected official and runs his or her dept. as they see fit. We have allowed wage continuation for anywhere from several days to several weeks, or not at all, depending on the claim. However, in the rare claim where absence from work appears to be necessary much longer than hoped for (maybe 8-10 weeks or beyond) we will usually stop wage continuation and allow temporary total to take over. We have no “one size fits all” wage continuation or light duty determinations. Max Trachsel Hardin Co EMA From: CORSA-broadcast [mailto:corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org] On Behalf Of Blankenship, Lu Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:08 PM To: CORSA Broadcast Email Subject: [CORSA-broadcast] Wage Continuation With all the current discussion, I'm wondering which counties pay Wage Continuation. Richland County is currently paying Wage Continuation for one month. Please let me know if your county pays wage continuation and for how long. Also, how long do you allow light duty? Thanks. Lu Blankenship Risk Management Richland County office: 419-774-6318 fax: 419-774-3581 mobile: 419-564-1469 ***The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ***
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