§7385s–2 Compensation schedule for contractor employees

Summary

Calculates how much money a covered DOE contractor employee gets if they catch a covered illness from toxic exposure. The total payment is the sum of two parts. First, a government official must give the worker an impairment rating in percentage points and say how many of those points came from the work-related illness. The worker gets $2,500 for each percentage point caused by the illness. Second, the official must find the calendar month when the worker first lost wages because of the illness and figure the worker’s average yearly pay for the 36 months before that month (not counting months the worker was unemployed). For each calendar year from the year the wage loss began through the year the worker reaches normal Social Security retirement age, the official counts years when the worker’s pay was more than 50% but not more than 75% of that average, and years when pay was 50% or less of that average. The worker gets $10,000 for each year in the first group and $15,000 for each year in the second group. The impairment rating must follow the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.