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Can I File For Workers’ Compensation If I’m Only Part Time in Sugarland?

What If I Work Part-Time in Sugarland TX? Can I File For Workers Comp?

If you’re a part-time employee, you know that part-time employees only receive a part-time wage, and since they do not receive all if the same benefits that full-time workers do, part-time employees will often wonder if worker’s comp insurance is available to them, and if so, how would a claim payout work.

Part-Time Workers Can Be Eligible for Worker’s Compensation

Throughout Texas, if an employer decides to give full-time employees worker’s compensation benefits, then those benefits are extended to part-time employees as well.

Someone who is a part-time worker, works less that a full-time work (for most employers, this means 35-40 hours in a single week).

Calculations For Benefit Amounts For Part-Time Workers

For injured part-time employees, calculating how much worker’s compensation benefits add up to, the same formula is similar to calculating benefits for an injured full-time worker.

To get the average weekly wage, the last 13 consecutive weeks’ pay preceding the injury are added up and then divided by the overall sum of 13.

If the employee did not hold the same position within the previous 13 weeks prior to the injury or if the worker’s average pay is not able to be calculated, the average weekly wage for the injured employee can be decided upon by looking at someone else’s weekly average wage who has been in a similar situation.

In extraneous situations, where there are no employees with a similar situation inside the injured worker’s workplace, the average weekly wage can be determined by an outside employee in a similar situation, due to the fact that this employee doesn’t have to be from the same company.

For certain kinds of worker’s compensation benefits, specifically for injured part-time workers, the calculations are kind of different.

To determine the different benefits stages such as impairment income benefits, supplemental income benefits, lifetime income benefits, and death benefits, the average weekly wage is calculated based off of their method, and then that amount is adjusted to the weekly wage level the worker would have attained by working a full-time work week at the same rate of pay.

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