Enhanced industrial disability leave.

Existing law generally grants to state officers and employees who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the State Teachers' Retirement System, among others, a right to industrial disability leave, as defined. Existing law defines an excluded employee to include managerial employees and supervisors, among others. Existing law provides an enhanced industrial disability leave benefit to an excluded employee who is temporarily disabled for more than 22 consecutive working days by an injury or type of injury designated by the Director of the Department of Human Resources as qualifying for these purposes. This bill would provide an employee who is a member of State Bargaining Unit 8 and is temporarily disabled in the course of state employment for more than 22 days an extended industrial disability leave benefit based on his or her net salary, as defined. The bill would authorize the employee to receive this benefit for a period not to exceed 52 weeks after the date of injury or until the date the injury is declared permanent, whichever is earlier. The bill would additionally authorize an eligible employee whose injuries are burn-related to receive the benefit for up to 156 weeks.