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Agency Direct Communication with Federal Injured Workers OWCP rules & Provisions
A growing problem that injured federal workers keep running into: employing agencies that try to short-circuit the OWCP process by offering modified duty straight to the injured employee—or handing them agency medical-clearance forms—while deliberately leaving the claims examiner out of the loop. That’s not just poor practice. In many cases it violates the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act.”
Core Problem with this process first under the OWCP and FECA ACT rules:
Agencies are increasingly making written or verbal modified-duty offers directly to the injured worker (or the treating physician)…
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