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cynthia yeargin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 4:28 pm: | 
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My
husband has been released to return to light duty. Sit down work, no
use of affected upper extremity. The accident occurred in south
carolina, he lives in nc. The company has no light duty available, his
companies home base is in columbia, sc-3 hours away. So they have
assigned him to go to the good will as a greeter. his pay will only be
$5.15 per hour. He is currently drawing a worker's comp check, although
they are now behind the last 2 weeks delivering him a check. his
previous salary was $19 an hour. Can they pay him less than his
previous salary? |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 950
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 7:33 am: |
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The short answer is yes.
But
they also have to pay him 2/3 of the difference between his present
salary and his worker' compensation benefit amount. Often they will not
tell him this. |
UpstateSC
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 7:04 pm: |
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Mr
McChesney: I am not sure what I should do. This is the frist time I
have ever had any real dealings with WC. I had Carpal Tunnel sugery on
both hands. One hand is pretty good, but not like it was 5 years ago.
The other hand is a nother story all together. I have nerve damage
which come to find out is permanent. I know that the company always low
balls as far as a settlment is conserned, but I am scared that if I get
a lawer so that I get a far settlement that I will be painting a target
on my back so that my employer has a reasonto fire me. I know several
people who had to get a lawer to get a desent settlement, and since
then the company has found reason to get ride of them. The flip side to
this is I am also not sure if the surgen didn't mess up and thats why I
don't have any feeling in my finger tips in my thumb,pointer,middle and
half of my ring finger. The base to this is I don't want to get screwed
in the settlement, and don't want to loose my job, and should I look at
wether the surgen messed up. I just am not sure what to do at this
point. In upstate SC |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 966
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 6:55 am: |
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Upstate:
You might consider sitting down with an attorney to talk, with the
understanding that he will keep the talk confidentail; take the
attorney all of your medicals. He can give you an estimate of what your
case is worth, and you can take that back to your employer.
There
are laws against firing someone for exercising their compensation
rights, but those laws don't work all that well, since they can always
fire you for coming in late or something like that. One thing you can
do to minimize this problem is to be an absolute model employee, coming
in early, staying late, etc. That way, they are less inclined to fire
you, and if they do, it is easier to prove they did it because of your
comp claim. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:05 am: |
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I have been drawing WC since Sept. 2005 due to a knee injury at work. I was released from the DR. in Feb. 2006 but my employer only has part time work, which WC is paying me the difference. I am moving to Florida ina few months and my employer knows this. Wc called me and offered a settlement of approx. $10,200. based on a 14% rating from my Dr. what happens if I accept this vs. going to the conference hearing and is the advantages and disadvantages? |
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