Employee authorized to receive vocational rehabilitation, when
When a worker gets hurt badly enough on the job, their employer and insurance company can approve them to get job training or other help so they can work again. A state director is in charge of keeping a list of approved helpers, checking that the plans for helping workers are good, and making sure everything is working the way it should.
287.146. Employee to receive , when — duties of . — 1. When an employee has injury of sufficient severity, as provided in section 287.148, as the result of an injury arising out of and in the course of , the employee may, if authorized by the employer and the , receive vocational rehabilitation services that are reasonably necessary to restore him to .
2. The director shall sections 287.144 to 287.149, and shall:
(1) Maintain a of all qualified s and s whether public or private, including s directly employed by an insurer, employer or that render rehabilitation services to injured workers in this state;
(2) Analyze and report annually the results and cost of rehabilitation assignments;
(3) vocational rehabilitation plans and disapprove within fourteen days of receipt, if such plans do not meet criteria set forth in s 1 to 5* of section 287.148. The director may review plans and supervise the completion of approved plans;
(4) Review the progress of rehabilitation under the applicable plan filed by the rehabilitation practitioner or provider to determine if such plan meets the criteria set forth in subsections 1 to 5 of section 287.148 throughout the period the plan is in force;
(5) Appoint vocational rehabilitation monitors to assist in the implementation of (3) to (5) of this subsection. A monitor shall have the qualifications as set forth for vocational rehabilitation practitioners and at least two years of in the field of disabilities.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1990 S.B. 751) Effective 7-01-91 *Number "7" appears in original rolls.
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