School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Regulation 4-37.1

PERSONNEL

Workers' Compensation: Work Related Accident/Injury Leave

1. In work-related accident cases which qualify as compensable under Workers' Compensation regulations and result in injury requiring absence from work, the school board will continue the employee's salary and fringe benefits in full, less Workers' Compensation payments for a period not to exceed thirty (30) workdays. Severe cases requiring absence beyond thirty workdays will be re-evaluated, upon request, for possible extension of coverage.

2. Absence from work in such cases shall be charged to the employee's accumulated leave at the rate of one-third day per day of absence.

3. Periodic medical reports shall be required.

4. With a physician's concurrence, an employee may be required to return to work on limited duty assignment prior to resuming, in full, regularly assigned duties.

5. Whenever absence is due to physical contact with a student who has lost or lacks self-control resulting in an injury, sick leave will not be charged the employee. The Office of Employee Relations reserves the right to require medical documentation.


Approved by School Board: February 16, 1993
Revised by Superintendent December 13, 2002