2.2 An employee receiving a job-related injury serious enough to cause absence from the job for eight calendar days or more, as documented by a physician, may be entitled to weekly compensation benefits to replace lost wages in addition to medicines and medical care. As an alternative to the weekly compensation benefit, an injured employee may elect to remain on the payroll until earned sick leave and vacation leave are exhausted. After exhaustion of such leave, the employee may be eligible for weekly compensation benefits. The employee is entitled to such status without the approval of the president and without exhausting paid leave entitlements. In the event of an employee's job-related death, survivor benefits are provided for the spouse and minor or dependent children.
Benefits are payable for the lifetime of the spouse or until remarriage.
This Rule replaces PPM 2.4.7 .