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<blockquote data-quote="spidey" data-source="post: 122593" data-attributes="member: 1798"><p>If you are injured on the job UPS will find you alternate work. It will not be counted against your long term or short term disability. You are paid as a working employee, therefore using up none of your disability benifits, which you will be counting the days of very carefully should you happen to be terribly hurt of have a major medical emergency. They have an obligation to provide TAW because you were hurt on the job. They do not have an obligation to pay you $25 an hour to sit in the office and get in the OMS's way because you fell off your bike or threw out your back midget bowling on a Saturday night.</p><p></p><p>Why UPS won't pay you to answer phones if you've been injured riding your bike: Let's say you show up in a cast and they sit you down to answer phones. As you reach for a pencil or a sticky note you feel a pop in your shoulder. You now have a work place injury. UPS will pay possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars out because you fell off your bike. If you are not 100% medically released before your return to work UPS can be held responsible if you reinjure yourself. They have no obligation to open themselves up to that sort of liability, so they don't. I can't blame them.</p><p></p><p>I always hesitate to post here because people flare up about every stupid thing, so I'll add this disclaimer: Not all TAW drivers or sorters get in the OMS's way, and, while I have heard of local establishments that at one time or another promoted midget bowling I have never participated myself nor do I condone it in any way, unless both little person and bowler are consenting adults of sound mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spidey, post: 122593, member: 1798"] If you are injured on the job UPS will find you alternate work. It will not be counted against your long term or short term disability. You are paid as a working employee, therefore using up none of your disability benifits, which you will be counting the days of very carefully should you happen to be terribly hurt of have a major medical emergency. They have an obligation to provide TAW because you were hurt on the job. They do not have an obligation to pay you $25 an hour to sit in the office and get in the OMS's way because you fell off your bike or threw out your back midget bowling on a Saturday night. Why UPS won't pay you to answer phones if you've been injured riding your bike: Let's say you show up in a cast and they sit you down to answer phones. As you reach for a pencil or a sticky note you feel a pop in your shoulder. You now have a work place injury. UPS will pay possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars out because you fell off your bike. If you are not 100% medically released before your return to work UPS can be held responsible if you reinjure yourself. They have no obligation to open themselves up to that sort of liability, so they don't. I can't blame them. I always hesitate to post here because people flare up about every stupid thing, so I'll add this disclaimer: Not all TAW drivers or sorters get in the OMS's way, and, while I have heard of local establishments that at one time or another promoted midget bowling I have never participated myself nor do I condone it in any way, unless both little person and bowler are consenting adults of sound mind. [/QUOTE]
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