Workers' compensation: employees of the City and County of San Francisco: leaves of absence.

Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law generally provides that whenever certain public employees, who are employed on a regular, full-time basis, are disabled, whether temporarily or permanently, by injury or illness arising out of, and in the course of, their duties, they are required to become entitled, regardless of their period of service with the public employer, to a leave of absence while so disabled without loss of salary in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments, if any, that would be payable for the period of disability, but not exceeding one year, or until that earlier date as the employee is retired on permanent disability pension, and is actually receiving disability pension payment, or certain advanced disability pension payment. Existing law specifies certain public employees to whom the above-described provisions shall not apply, including certain employees of the City and County of San Francisco. This bill would provide that the above-described provisions shall apply to certain employees of the City and County of San Francisco. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.