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| | Workers' Compensation is a benefit provided to all City of Lakeland employees. All job related injuries or accidents, must be reported to the employee's supervisor immediately. The procedures for such reporting are specified in the City's Risk Management Manual. Failure to do so may jeopardize treatment or compensation at a later date. Workers' Compensation covers all authorized medical costs, which are paid in full.
All regular part-time and full-time employees, who lose time from their job due to work related injury, may receive full salary and benefits for up to six months. Every effort will be made to accommodate "light duty", as a result of an on the job injury. However, management may change employee’s work assignments, department, types of work or shifts in order to provide the "light duty".
Beginning the twenty-fifth week of absence, the employee may be eligible for benefits amounting to approximately 66-2/3% of their regular salary, payable in accordance with Florida Statutes. The employee may choose to continue using any remaining accrued sick leave to supplement his or her Workers' Compensation benefits to provide for the full amount of his or her base rate of pay. However, in no event will the benefits received under this policy be greater than 100% of the rate of pay received by an employee at the time of injury or disability. If an employee uses all accrued sick leave during his or her absence, the employee may use accrued vacation leave to continue the pay supplement until such time as it is also expended.
While on extended leave due to a work related injury or illness and receiving Workers' Compensation, employees will continue to accrue sick days as though actively at work. The City will also continue it's contribution of the employee's single health insurance and basic life insurance for as long as Workers' Compensation benefits are being paid.
When an employee has attained a minimum of ten (10) years of eligible service with the City and has been accepted by the City as being “permanently and totally disabled” due to a work related injury and has been denied the right to draw their pension due to age restrictions, the employee will be allowed to continue to carry their health insurance at their expense, as if they had met normal retirement at their expense.
Upon official retirement from the City, as determined by the City's Pension Board, sick and annual leave used to supplement the injury or illness, will be credited back to the employee in full. These days will then apply to calculations of final pay and pension benefits in accordance with established City policies.
After 180 consecutive days of total disability, the City's Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance program is available for eligible employees.
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