Injured Employee Terminated - Need Clarification on Wage Benefits
I posted a bit over a month ago about my wife’s workplace injury which occurred in February 2025. Sedgwick is the claims administrator. She sustained a TBI and has been off work since that time. Her employer has made us aware that they will be terminating her employment as she has exhausted all federal and state job protections and they will terminate her employment effective within the next week. There are no accommodations that can be made at this point. She only just began OT which was supposed to start in April 2025, but didn’t.
We have been told by multiple individuals who are part of her care team and by staff within Leave Management at her employer (a large healthcare system here in CO) that this does not affect her worker’s compensation claim … both her medical care and compensation will continue.
Today we received an email from her employer stating that her medical care will continue but her wage coverage will not.
We have not had any issues with compensation payments although it was slow to be set up but since then no delays.
Does anyone know if this is accurate … once an employer terminates an employee (in Colorado) who was injured on the job and has not returned to work due to the injury - and is still on “out of work” per the provider, and who has exhausted all federal and state job protections, does that mean that employee is no longer eligible for compensation payments they have been receiving every two weeks?
She doesn’t go back for another follow-up until mid-May, and she is off-work through that date and likely beyond. Her doctor wanted at least 10 weeks of OT and they’d reassess. That ten weeks won’t be up until the first week in June.
Thanks for any input or clarification.