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Revision as of 19:48, 13 December 2022
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The first phase is to see if the employer can or will accommodate the worker and their impairment. If there is no accommodation and the worker does not have a job to return to, vocational rehabilitation goes through further phases to assesses what vocational rehabilitation assistance the Board should provide to help the worker become employable, given their permanent injury. Vocational rehabilitation benefits are discretionary but typically include a vocational rehabilitation plan for the worker to re-train and/or have a job search and wage loss benefits for this period of vocational rehabilitation time. If successful, vocational rehabilitation results in the injured worker successfully adapting to employment with a permanent injury. | The first phase is to see if the employer can or will accommodate the worker and their impairment. If there is no accommodation and the worker does not have a job to return to, vocational rehabilitation goes through further phases to assesses what vocational rehabilitation assistance the Board should provide to help the worker become employable, given their permanent injury. Vocational rehabilitation benefits are discretionary but typically include a vocational rehabilitation plan for the worker to re-train and/or have a job search and wage loss benefits for this period of vocational rehabilitation time. If successful, vocational rehabilitation results in the injured worker successfully adapting to employment with a permanent injury. | ||
It is possible that vocational rehabilitation is not successful or that a seriously injured worker is simply too disabled to ever be competitively employable. | It is possible that vocational rehabilitation is not successful or that a seriously injured worker is simply too disabled to ever be competitively employable. | ||
== B. Short Term and Long Term Average Earnings and Wage Rates == | == B. Short Term and Long Term Average Earnings and Wage Rates == | ||