NAC284.5777. Temporary total disability: Workers’ compensation travel leave to receive medical treatment.

     1. An appointing authority shall grant leave to an employee in the classified or unclassified service of the State to receive medical treatment for a work-related injury or occupational disease if the employee:

     (a) Qualified for benefits for a temporary total disability pursuant to NRS 616C.475; and

     (b) After returning to work, is required to travel more than 50 miles one way from his or her place of employment to receive such medical treatment.

     2. An appointing authority shall pay an employee who is granted leave pursuant to subsection 1:

     (a) If he or she is a nonexempt employee, his or her regular hourly rate of pay for each hour that he or she is absent from his or her place of employment for such leave.

     (b) If he or she is an exempt classified employee or an exempt unclassified employee and is absent from his or her place of employment for a full day for such leave, his or her regular rate of pay for each such day.

     3. Leave granted pursuant to this section must be taken as workers’ compensation travel leave and must not be deducted from any sick leave, annual leave, compensatory leave or any other personal leave that may be available to the employee.

     (Added to NAC by Personnel Comm’n by R221-05, eff. 2-23-2006)