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Committee orders OJI policy enforced after review; current sheriff cases grandfathered until return to work
Summary
Legal counsel and finance raised concerns that sheriff’s office had been paying a supplement beyond the OJI plan’s allowable payments; committee voted to allow two existing sheriff employees receiving the supplemental third to conclude current payments but to enforce the OJI plan going forward and apply the plan uniformly across county employees.
Legal counsel told the Self Insurance Board Committee that language in the county’s OJI policy (page 5, section 1‑103) provides exclusive authority for on‑the‑job injury payments and does not authorize department‑level deviations. Committee members said the sheriff’s office had been supplementing OJI income to one‑third…
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