To assist with the transition of employees injured on the job to full duty, the District may be able to modify work assignments to accommodate their situations. School sites or departments are encouraged to find temporary, modified, limited, or alternate work assignments at the employee s regular site for a maximum of twelve weeks . By keeping employees at their regular sites, there is less chance for absence reporting and payroll errors. Refusal of Temporary Duty by an employee results in a full dock.
Temporary duty has great flexibility in designing work to meet the doctor s restrictions.
Many school sites welcome the opportunity to do projects or have extra help in the classroom. The temporary job cannot replace a regular job but can go outside of the employee s regular job description. For example, a custodian with a lifting restriction of 10 lbs. can help with mailings or monitor bathrooms or help in the classroom as a temporary assignment. If the employee has not been released to full duty at the end of the twelve-week temporary duty assignment period, the employee will be sent home and placed on temporary disability benefits through Workers Compensation Insurance provider or administrator. The employee must take this form to the doctor when seeking medical treatment.