Federal Employees Compensation Act

Acquire an understanding of the requirement of the Federal Employees Compensation Act. 

To avoid these language problems, different terminology is now in place. For example, the Federal Employees Compensation Act states that injured employees will receive compensation for the disability or death of an employee resulting from personal injury sustained while in the performance of his duty. It defines injury to include a disease proximately caused by the employment. ... 

The administrative problem of evaluating each permanent partial disability has given way to the widespread practice of schedules. Schedules set in advance the value of each kind of disability. Units for disability are weeks of lost earnings. For example, under the Federal Employees Compensation Act, the schedule says complete loss of a thumb is worth 75 weeks. Compensation is the number of weeks multiplied by the normal weekly wage of the person prior to injury. Practices in using schedules vary by state and the value of a scheduled loss can be quite different in different states. 

The Federal Employment Compensation Act provides workers compensation for nonmilitary, federal employees. Many of its provisions remain typical of most workers compensation laws. Many times awards remain limited to disability or death sustained while in the performance of the employee s duties. The act covers medical expenses due to the disability and may require... 

The Eederal Employees Compensation Act (FECA), 5 U.S.C. 8101 etseq., establishes a comprehensive and exclusive workers compensation program which pays compensation for the disability or death of a federal employee resulting from personal injury sustained while in the petformance of duty. The FECA, administered by OWCP, provides benefits for wage loss compensation for total or partial disability, schedule awards for permanent loss or loss of use of specified members of the body, related medical costs, and vocational rehabilitation. 

Another area that may impact the safety function within the Social Security Act is unemployment insurance. This nationwide joint federal and state system provides unemployment benefits to protect individuals and families against the loss of income due to unemployment. This complex system is encompassed within the Social Security Act as well as the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, requiring employers to provide an unemployment tax to the state at varying rates for employees, and the state to provide the funds to the U.S. Treasury Department. The secretary of the treasury is responsible for investing the funds, and the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for certifying the unemployment payments to the state agencies. Each state has individual unemployment compensation laws that incorporate various provisions of the Social Security Act and Federal Unemployment Tax Act. 

Guidance Section 405 of the STAA — Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. 31105) states, in part, that no person shall discharge, discipline, or in any manner discriminate against an employee with respect to the employee s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment for refusing to operate a vehicle when such operation constitutes a violation of any Federal rule, regulation, standard, or order applicable to CMV safety. In such a case, a driver may submit a signed complaint to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 

Several agencies administer programs related solely to the construction industry. OSHA has special occupational safety and health standards for construction The Waee and Hour Division, under Davis-Bacon and related acts, requires payment of prevailing wages and tenets The OfRce of Federal Contract Compliance Programs enforces Executive Order 11246, which requires federal construction contractors and subcontractors, as well as federally assisted construction contractors, to provide equal employment opportunity the anti-kickback section of the Copeland Act precludes a federal contractorfrom inducing any employee to sacrifice any part of the compensation required. 

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