Section 31IAC5-9-27. Partial disability

   (a) Short-term and long-term disability benefits will be paid only if the disability would not permit the employee to perform any other job assignment and an appointing authority does not assign duties the employee is physically capable of performing, according to the determinations made in sections 16 and 17 of this rule.

  (b) An employee unable to do his or her regular job, but who returns to work and performs any job assignment will receive eighty percent (80%) of his or her base biweekly wage or the minimum hourly rate for services performed, whichever is greater.

  (c) An employee who refuses an appropriate temporary assignment shall be terminated from employment, and benefits under this rule shall cease. (State Personnel Department; 31 IAC 5-9-27; filed May 10, 2012, 2:32 p.m.: 20120606-IR-031110446FRA)