Section 420.630  On-The-Job Injury – Industrial Disease

An employee who suffers an on-the-job injury or who contracts a service-connected disease shall be allowed full pay for 3 working days of absence without utilization of any accumulated sick leave or other benefits, if a worker's compensation claim is filed and approved.  Thereafter, the employee shall be permitted to utilize accumulated sick leave or other benefit leave time unless the employee has applied for and been granted temporary, total disability benefits in lieu of salary or wages pursuant to provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act [820 ILCS 305] or has been granted a disability leave of absence in accordance with Section 420.760.  Up to 12 weeks of leave time in a 12 month period may be designated as FMLA leave time under the Family & Medical Leave Act and will run concurrently with worker's compensation leave provided the absence is due to a qualifying serious injury or illness.  An employee who returns from a service connected disability leave shall be returned to the same or similar position in the same class in which the employee was incumbent at the time the leave commenced.  In the event the service connected injury or illness becomes the subject of payment of benefits provided in the Workers' Compensation Act by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, the employee shall restore to the State the payment received as sick leave or other accumulated benefit leave time and the employee's leave account shall be credited with leave time equivalents.  

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 15017, effective September 8, 2008)