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RSMo 287.143effective 28 Aug 2005

Vocational rehabilitation services, not mandatory

In plain English

This law says that employers are not forced to provide vocational rehabilitation services to a badly injured worker. However, a worker does have to go through vocational testing and a rehabilitation assessment if the employer or insurance company sets one up.

Word-for-word law

287.143. services, not mandatory — testing and . — As a guide to the interpretation and of sections 287.144 to 287.149, sections 287.144 to 287.149 shall not be to require the employer to provide vocational rehabilitation to a severely injured employee. An employee shall submit to and a scheduled by an employer or its .

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Source & history notes

(L. 1990 S.B. 751, A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)

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