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Call Now: 904-383-7448The Department of Administrative Services shall formulate and initiate a sound program of self-insurance for workers' compensation benefits for all employees of the state, including employees of authorities. In formulating the self-insurance program, the department is directed to establish a return to work program that promotes the return of an employee to employment by creating transitional employment prior to full recovery by providing temporary assignments for an employee that are meaningful and medically approved until the employee can return to his or her regularly assigned duties. If an agency or authority does not allow an employee to engage in transitional employment under the return to work program, the number of authorized positions in the budget for the agency or authority shall be decreased by the number of employees collecting workers' compensation not engaged in return to work employment for whom return to work plans have been developed.
(Ga. L. 1969, p. 234, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 406; Ga. L. 2008, p. 245, § 5/SB 425.)
- Group self-insurance programs for workers' compensation benefits generally, § 34-9-150 et seq.
- Director of department (now commissioner of administrative services) has authority to determine and prescribe how the state workers' compensation self-insurance program will be administered. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-477.
- Authority may pay its employees a monetary supplement to workers' compensation payments received by such employees under the state self-insurance program. 1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U74-76.
- Investigators employed by the Department of Administrative Services may legally have access to a state department's personnel file on a claimant for purposes of administering or defending a workers' compensation claim against that department. 1980 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 80-137.
- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 230 et seq., 241. 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, §§ 1 et seq., 47, 155.
- 81 C.J.S., States, §§ 224, 225, 256. 99 C.J.S., Workmen's Compensation, §§ 1 et seq., 230 et seq.
- Workmen's compensation: power of commission to make award against self-insurer, 13 A.L.R. 1385.
Constitutionality of retroactive statute providing compensation for death in service of state, 28 A.L.R. 1100.
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