Crispy Critter
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Has anyone been involved in a work related accident?
My wife was helping another employee carry a box downstairs last week and luckly on the bottom step twisted her ankle. We spent all morning in the emergency room and all afternoon in the Fondo, the Pureto Rican name for workmens compensation. The Fondo is government so I watched as about sixty forms were filled out from station to station and my wife visited nurse, doctor, case worker and finally was issued crutches. They insisted she see a specialist in a town about two hours away tomorrow morning and set an appoiintment for 8:00AM so she has to get up at 5:30 AM to make it on time.
Here's the deal she works on the second floor and can't go there on crutches... The Fondo says she should take four weeks off from work to recover and if she doesn't then she loses protection from workmens compensation even if she experiences complications later... Her boss wants her back and is setting up a work office on the first floor so she can return to work as she has skills in the small company that no one else has but to return to work requires she give up her workmens compensation rights...
My wife works doing contract proposals and electrical engineering drawings on the computer so I told her to tell her boss to send her computer to our home and I would take the papers back and forth... that she could do the office work for free while drawing the Fondo and AFLAC and they could give her a bonus after the Fondo preiod elasped or determing her injury isn't more serious. She is bored to death and would like to return to work but can't without possibly getting screwed. What would you do in a case like this?
My wife was helping another employee carry a box downstairs last week and luckly on the bottom step twisted her ankle. We spent all morning in the emergency room and all afternoon in the Fondo, the Pureto Rican name for workmens compensation. The Fondo is government so I watched as about sixty forms were filled out from station to station and my wife visited nurse, doctor, case worker and finally was issued crutches. They insisted she see a specialist in a town about two hours away tomorrow morning and set an appoiintment for 8:00AM so she has to get up at 5:30 AM to make it on time.
Here's the deal she works on the second floor and can't go there on crutches... The Fondo says she should take four weeks off from work to recover and if she doesn't then she loses protection from workmens compensation even if she experiences complications later... Her boss wants her back and is setting up a work office on the first floor so she can return to work as she has skills in the small company that no one else has but to return to work requires she give up her workmens compensation rights...
My wife works doing contract proposals and electrical engineering drawings on the computer so I told her to tell her boss to send her computer to our home and I would take the papers back and forth... that she could do the office work for free while drawing the Fondo and AFLAC and they could give her a bonus after the Fondo preiod elasped or determing her injury isn't more serious. She is bored to death and would like to return to work but can't without possibly getting screwed. What would you do in a case like this?