Job-related injuries are limited to those accidental injuries incurred by employees during their workday, at school-sponsored activities at which responsibility has been assigned to them, or when they are conducting school district business at the request or direction of supervisory personnel.

Each injury must be reported to the principal or immediate supervisor as soon as possible after the occurrence. The principal/supervisor will complete the appropriate form to document the injury. The employee must see a physician (not at Board expense) within 48 hours after the occurrence. In addition, the attending physician’s statement is required to verify the necessity of employee’s absence from work for which he/she requests pay without loss of sick leave days.

The employee must present to the Superintendent written documentation that the injury was job-related.

Salary continuation without loss of sick leave days will be granted only with the Superintendent’s recommendation and Board approval.

Payment for time lost from work due to an on-the-job injury may not exceed 100 percent of the employee’s regular salary rate.

Salary continuation for an employee for absences due to an on-the-job injury may be made only for temporary disabilities if there is reasonable expectation that the employee will return to work within a reasonable period of time.

In no case shall any employee’s salary continuation without loss of sick leave days exceed 90 working days for any one on-the-job accident.

Employees who are absent from work due to a job-related injury may petition the Alabama State Board of Adjustment, by application, for restitution of medical costs not covered by insurance or lost wages not restored by implementation of this policy.

Nothing in this policy shall be understood as precluding an employee who is absent due to a job-related injury from using accumulated sick leave or the sick leave bank, if eligible.