Common use of Extent of Benefits Clause in Contracts

Extent of Benefits. In the event an employee suffers an injury and is unable to work as a result of an on-duty accident or incident other than for reason of misbehavior or carelessness (which goes beyond negligence) on the part of the employee, and such injury is determined to be allowable by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) or Industrial Commission (IC), the employee may receive up to seven hundred twenty (720) hours of leave for each new and separate injury. An employee who contracts a communicable disease, which is the result of an on-duty exposure incident with the City of Xenia, will be eligible for injury leave. When injury leave is exhausted, the employee may elect to use accumulated sick leave and/or other accrued leave. In extreme cases where the employee has exhausted all sick leave and other accrued leave, additional injury leave may be granted at the discretion of the City Manager, considering the facts of the particular case. Where disability caused by an in-the-line-of-duty injury continues for a period of twelve