What If I Work Part-Time in Pasadena 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
In Texas, employers who opt to provide full-time workers with worker’s compensation insurance coverage, will also extend this coverage to part-time employees.
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.
In cases such as a worker not holding the same position during the last 13 weeks, or if the worker’s average pay cannot be calculated, the average weekly wage for the injured worker can be determined by looking at what similarly situated workers would have been paid over the 13 week period before the injury.
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.
Certain types of worker’s compensation benefits for injured part-time workers are calculated differently.
In the cases that an injured part-time worker needs benefits like impairment income benefits, lifetime income benefits, supplemental income benefits, and death benefits, they take the average weekly wage, calculate it based on the specific benefit, take the amount and adjust it to the weekly wage level of the worker, if the worker was working a full-time work week.
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