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[SHANNON] Hello, I am Shannon Burhans and
I am an Associate for Medical Leaves Administration.
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I oversee Cornell's short-term disability
and workers compensation programs. The short-term
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disability plan provides partial income benefits for
all non-academic Cornell endowed and contract
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college employees, who are unable to work due
to an illness or injury, not related
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to or caused by their job. This program covers both
benefit eligible and non-benefit eligible
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temporary, non-academic employees.
Cornell offers our benefits eligible, non-academic
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employees 50% of their pay for up to 26 weeks of
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short-term disability. Non-benefits eligible
employees are covered under the terms of the New
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York State program, which has a salary cap.
To start the disability process for either program,
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you will need to submit an out-of-work
note from your physician stating you are unable to
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work as of a specific date to your HR rep.
There's a seven consecutive day waiting period before
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benefit payments start. You are required
to use health and personal leave to cover
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the waiting period after the seven calendar day
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waiting period. You will receive disability pay
for the time you are medically approved
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as disabled from work, up to a maximum of
26 weeks. You can use health and personal
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leave and vacation time to supplement the disability pay
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if you would like to. Please inform your HR rep
if you wish to supplement from your accruals to
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receive full pay. Once that out of work note is
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received by your HR representative they will complete
a transaction in Workday putting you
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on leave. MLA will receive notification that
your leave request has been entered into
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Workday, at that time MLA will email to your
Cornell email address
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a packet of information and forms.
There will be two forms; an Authorization for Release of
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Medical Information and a
DB-450 Notice and Proof of Disability.
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You will have 30 days from receipt
of the packet to return the forms to me.
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Once you are released to return to work you will need
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to submit a return to work note to your HR rep.
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It is important to note that Cornell has employees
across the United States, while most of our
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New York employees are covered under the terms
of the programs I just described, there are
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a handful of other states which have their own version
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of paid family or paid medical leave. If you work
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in a state other than New York and you aren't
sure whether your state provides its own
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paid family or medically benefit,
you may contact Medical
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Leaves Administration. If you are
covered under your own
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state's policy we will be happy to direct
you to the appropriate state agency which
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would receive your request for paid leave.
Now let's talk
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about workers compensation.
The eligibility for workers
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compensation is very simple. If you are paid via
Cornell payroll and you receive a W-2 from
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Cornell University you are covered under
workers' compensation. Workers' compensation exists to
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cover the cost of medical care if someone
is sick, hurt or injured due to their job.
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It also provides lost wage replacement if someone is unable
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to work due to a work related condition. If you experience
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a work-related illness or work injury Cornell policy
requires that you notify your immediate
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supervisor within 24 hours of the accident.
To file a claim for benefits, complete a
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Cornell Accident Report Form, paying particular attention to
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the nature of the injury, lost work time and medical
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treatment administered. In order to report
the injury you will need to log into the
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EH&S website. You will then click on the red box
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that says 'Report a New Incident'.
Click 'Accept' to go to the reporting site.
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Click 'Report New Incident'. Click on the top one, 'Injury,
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Illness or Exposure' which will take you to
the Event Report. Fill and complete all information.
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If you will be seeking medical treatment please be
sure to note that when asked. Medical Leaves
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receives a copy of all work related incident reports
and we will contact you directly if
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we need more information, otherwise we will file
the work related incident report with
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the appropriate workers compensation carrier,
as they are different agencies involved depending
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on whether you are an endowed or contract college
employee. The appropriate carrier will
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then contact you directly with more information about
your workers compensation claim, and how
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to submit requests for reimbursement for any
out-of-pocket costs. If you are taken out of
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work for a work-related injury, you will need
to submit an out-of-work note from your treating
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physician to your HR rep so that they can
place you out on the appropriate leave in
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Workday. If you have any questions
about either short-term disability
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or workers' compensation, you are welcome to
contact me directly at sjb273@cornell.edu,
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and I will be happy to help you.
