Risk Management

Workers' Compensation (CARO) State Agencies' Resources

Missouri Early Return to Work Program: Model Policy Statement

SAMPLE

In an effort to maintain the department’s skilled workforce and reduce workers’ compensation costs, the Department of _____________, hereby establishes an Early Return to Work program to enhance the recovery to employees who are injured or contract an occupational disease in the course and scope of state employment.  Employees will be placed in temporary modified duty assignments, when feasible, during the course of the recovery to perform duties consistent with the temporary limitations.