A Louisiana appellate court ruled last week that an injured public school teacher was entitled to collect temporary total disability benefits while on sabbatical leave, even though that resulted in her receiving more money than she had been making while working.
Although the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit of Louisiana has no precedent establishing that an employer cannot offset a worker’s TTD payment to account for sabbatical leave benefits, the court said the Jefferson Parish Public School System still acted unreasonably in terminating Tamara Bay’s TTD benefits once her sab...
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