After an injury on the job, it is your right to have the company or persons responsible compensate you for the rehabilitation that is needed afterword. Rehabilitation is the process of rebuilding work skills as part of recovering from an injury or illness. Sometimes an injured individual can eventually return to his or her previous job. If an injury places long-term or permanent limitations upon the person, retraining for a new type of job may be necessary. If you require vocational rehabilitation after a job injury or industrial illness, your employer or its workers’ compensation insurer may be required to pay for your rehabilitation services as part of your workers’ compensation benefits.
Denver Rehabilitation Examples
In Denver, vocational rehabilitation services to which an injured worker may be entitled include:
• On-the-job training
• Transferable-skills analysis and testing
• Resume and job-application services
• Interview coaching
• Labor-market surveys
• Job analysis
• Job-search assistance
• Wage-assessment evaluations
• Counseling
• Ergonomics assessment
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reasonable-accommodation assistance
• Education and tuition payments for retraining
If you or someone you know has been injured on the job and requires rehabilitation services to get their lives back in order and back into the work place, contact Jeffers Denver Law today.
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