Workers' compensation: supplemental job displacement benefits.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2013, provides supplemental job displacement benefits in the form of a nontransferable voucher for specified expenses, including education-related retraining or skill enhancement, for an injured employee who has a permanent partial disability, as specified. This bill would require the administrative director to report to the Assembly Committee on Insurance and the Senate Committee on Insurance, on or before January 1, 2016, the extent to which injured workers who obtained specific education or training with vouchers issued pursuant to the provisions described above obtained employment related to that education or training.