The purpose of the Disability Management - Transitional Employment (DM-TE) Program is to reduce the effects of disability in the workplace by temporarily reassigning disabled employees to alternative duties when they are temporarily unable to perform the duties of their position, with or without accommodations.

The DM-TE Program has been established to assist employees, with duty and non-duty injuries and illnesses, to successfully return to their regular job assignment. The program connects employees to assignments designed to be therapeutic in nature, leading the employee toward progressively more advanced physical demands. The individual and the State will benefit by achieving the following goals:

Benefits

• Return to productive work in a systematic and impartial manner.

• Minimize the employee's financial burden.

• Promote accelerated healing and recovery.

• Reduce trauma and anxiety related to an injury.

• Maintain work relationships.

• Maintain a productive work routine during the recovery period.

• Minimize feelings of displacement.

• Enhance employee/employer communication

• Provide a formalized program, consistently applied to all employees.

• Allow for informed decisions to be made concerning the type of work the employees can perform given their physical capabilities.

• Build trust between the physician, the employee and the department

• Maintain an experienced work force.
• Reduce lost time days.

• Reduce Workers' Compensation liability, particularly wage loss expenses.

• Reduce long-term disability costs.

• Enhance communication between employee, employer and treating physicians.