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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 2801117" data-attributes="member: 60822"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>UPS National Master Agreement, 2013 - 2018</strong></span></p><p>"The Employer agrees to provide any employee injured locally immediate transportation, at the time of injury, from the job <span style="color: #b30000">to the nearest appropriate medical facility</span> and return to the job, or to the employee’s home, if required. In such cases,<span style="color: #b30000"> no representative of the Employer shall be permitted to accompany the injured worker while he/she is receiving medical treatment and/or being examined by the medical provider, without the employee’s consent"</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">-----------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">"Nearest appropriate medical facility" is rarely the UPS doctor.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Each State has it's own rules regulating who chooses the initial doctor and subsequent doctors. In my State (and most others), the injured employee has the right to choose the initial doctor, and the ongoing treating doctor. UPS can also require you to see their doctor (and will have to pay for both). In my State you are also allowed to switch the doctor of your choice once. Your next visit to one of the 2 doctors effectively indicates your choice of doctor. Referrals by your own doctor to a different doctor do not count as switching doctors, nor does seeing the UPS doctor, if required by UPS. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">UPS is required to provide transportation to the doctor at the time of the injury, <strong>if requested by the employee. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p>The injured employee can ask the manager to leave the doctors clinic when he is receiving care, and the manager must comply. Before, during, and after the doctor's exam the manager has no right to require a "conference" with the doctor, employee, and manager. The employee, at the end of the exam, must inform the manager of the diagnosis and restrictions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="35years, post: 2801117, member: 60822"] [SIZE=4][B]UPS National Master Agreement, 2013 - 2018[/B][/SIZE] "The Employer agrees to provide any employee injured locally immediate transportation, at the time of injury, from the job [COLOR=#b30000]to the nearest appropriate medical facility[/COLOR] and return to the job, or to the employee’s home, if required. In such cases,[COLOR=#b30000] no representative of the Employer shall be permitted to accompany the injured worker while he/she is receiving medical treatment and/or being examined by the medical provider, without the employee’s consent" -----------------------------------[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]"Nearest appropriate medical facility" is rarely the UPS doctor. Each State has it's own rules regulating who chooses the initial doctor and subsequent doctors. In my State (and most others), the injured employee has the right to choose the initial doctor, and the ongoing treating doctor. UPS can also require you to see their doctor (and will have to pay for both). In my State you are also allowed to switch the doctor of your choice once. Your next visit to one of the 2 doctors effectively indicates your choice of doctor. Referrals by your own doctor to a different doctor do not count as switching doctors, nor does seeing the UPS doctor, if required by UPS. UPS is required to provide transportation to the doctor at the time of the injury, [B]if requested by the employee. [/B] [/COLOR] The injured employee can ask the manager to leave the doctors clinic when he is receiving care, and the manager must comply. Before, during, and after the doctor's exam the manager has no right to require a "conference" with the doctor, employee, and manager. The employee, at the end of the exam, must inform the manager of the diagnosis and restrictions. [/QUOTE]
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