Sec. 1. PL 1997, c. 24, Pt. A, §4, first ¶ is amended to read:

Sec. A-4. Workers' compensation positions. Limited period positions may be established for former regular employees of the State who are presently receiving workers' compensation payments from the State when that action will enable those employees to return to productive employment with the State. These positions may be established, providing funds are available, only until those employees can be returned to regular positions. A person placed in a limited period position created pursuant to this section is considered to be a member of the same bargaining unit of which that person was a member prior to the injury that resulted in payments under the workers' compensation law.

Sec. 2. Retroactivity. This Act applies retroactively to June 26, 1997.

SUMMARY

This bill clarifies the bargaining unit status of a state employee who is placed in a limited period position to enable the person to return to employment following a work-related injury. The bill provides that the person is a member of the same bargaining unit of which the person was a member prior to the injury.