6200. Every public agency, its insurance carrier, and the State Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of injured full-time public employees who may be benefited by rehabilitation services and retrained for other positions in public service. The State Department of Rehabilitation shall cooperate in both designing and monitoring […]
6201. The employer or insurance carrier shall notify the injured employee of the availability of rehabilitation services in those cases where there is continuing disability of 28 days and beyond. Notification shall be made at the time the employee is paid retroactively for the first day of disability (in cases of 28 days of continuing […]
6202. The initiation of a rehabilitation plan shall be the joint responsibility of the injured employee, and the employer or the insurance carrier. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1506.)
6203. If a rehabilitation plan requires an injured employee to attend an educational or medical facility away from his home, the injured employee shall be paid a reasonable and necessary subsistence allowance in addition to temporary disability indemnity. The subsistence allowance shall be regarded neither as indemnity nor as replacement for lost earnings, but rather […]
6204. An injured employee agreeing to a rehabilitation plan shall cooperate in carrying it out. On his unreasonable refusal to comply with the provisions of the rehabilitation plan, the injured employee’s rights to further subsistence shall be suspended until compliance is obtained, except that the payment of temporary or permanent disability indemnity, which would be […]
6205. The injured employee may agree with his employer or insurance carrier upon a rehabilitation plan without submission of such plan for approval to the State Department of Rehabilitation. Provision of service under such plans shall be at no cost to the State General Fund. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1506.)
6206. The injured employee shall receive such medical and vocational rehabilitative services as may be reasonably necessary to restore him to suitable employment. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1506.)
6207. The injured employee’s rehabilitation benefit is an additional benefit and shall not be converted to or replace any workmen’s compensation benefit available to him. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1506.)
6208. The initiation and acceptance of a rehabilitation program shall be voluntary and not compulsory upon the employer, the insurance carrier, or the injured employee. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 715.)
