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Commission adopts long-term supplement to county workers' compensation policy to maintain employee pay
Summary
The county adopted a policy to supplement workers' compensation so employees receive near-full pay during long-term compensable absences; the policy sets a 34% long-term supplement and uses staff payroll rules tied to standard week lengths.
County staff presented a revised workers' compensation policy to the Berkeley County Commission that is intended to maintain employees' income when they are off work for compensable workers' compensation claims. Chad, a county staff member who drafted the policy, told the commission the new approach replaces a manual "buyback" system and instead applies a 34% long-term supplement to standard full-time weekly rotations (32, 36, 40 and 48 hours) so employees…
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