Workers’ Compensation and Personal Property Loss Clause Samples

Workers’ Compensation and Personal Property Loss. Section 1. Any employee who sustains a disabling injury or illness by accident arising out of and in the course of employment for the City, which disabling injury or illness was not caused by willful neglect on the part of such officer or employee shall, in lieu of sick leave herein before provided by this Contract, receive workers’ compensation to be reimbursed at the rate of 80 percent of his regular base weekly earnings, not including overtime, as of the date of the injury or illness for a period of six months from the date of injury or illness. Section 2. Employer agrees to reimburse employee the actual cost less 25 percent of employee’s personal items damaged in the line of duty including only the following: eyeglasses and uniforms; the actual cost, less 25 percent or $20, whichever is less, for watches; the actual cost, less 25 percent or $35, whichever is less, for hand-held tape recorders used for taking statements in the course of official police duties. The Police Chief will finally determine if the loss is in fact in the line of duty and not by mere negligence of employee. If the loss is determined by the Chief to be by employee’s own negligence, no reimbursement will be made for said loss. The Chief’s decision will be final. This section does not affect items of personal property covered by or reimbursed pursuant to the South Dakota Workers’ Compensation laws.