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Orange County ABC Board Policy and Procedure Manual Workers Compensation Lease and Return to Work Program All injuries arising in the course of employment should be reported by employees, deemed by state law, immediately to the Assistant General Manager with information, such as who, what, when, where, witnesses, and nature of injury. An Employee Work Incident/Injury Report should be filled out as soon as possible. Failure to report injuries immediately may result in denial of the claim by the insurance company. The employee must contact EMC on call nurse, the nurse will access the injury and determine next steps. When an employee is injured in the course of performing,duties related to the job, benefits are available under the North Carolina Worker's Compen tibn Act. This benefit is available to all full-time and part-time employees. An employee absent from duty because of sickness or disability covered by Worker's Compensation laws may: ➢ Elect to receive only those payments made under Worker's Cot, fpensation law without using accumulated vacation or sick leave, or ➢ Elect to use their accumulated vaeationor sick leave to receive as a supplemental payment the difference between their regular salary and the payments received under Worker's Compensation. Accurn,ulated vaoatton or slek leave schedules will be adjust to reflect tim&Aised, Before returning to work, a Physician's Certificate is mandatory to determine the fitness of an employee to resume duties, While on wo rn' coin em tion le ue, the employee will continue to accumulate vacation and sick left-6 to be credif to the em.ployee's account for use upon return to regular full- time duty. If the employee d o%.not return to..regular full-time duty from workers' compensation leave and vacation accumulated only d.14,0ing the first six months of worker's compensation leave will be paid by a ,lum,p sum payment. This payment will be in addition to any unused vacation leave which was. on hand at the time of the injury. Sick leave will also be accumulated accordingly (for therfirst six months) but it applied, not paid. State Statute below for reference No compensation, as defined in G.S. 97-2 11 , shall be allowed for the first seven calendar days of disability resulting from an injury, except the benefits provided for in G_S97_25. Provided however, that in the case the injury results in disability of more than 21 days, the compensation shall be allowed from the date of the disability. Nothing in this section shall prevent an employer from allowing an employee to use paid sick leave, vacation or annual leave, or disability benefits provided directly by the employer during the first seven calendar days of disability, i i 4-14 11/2021