Claim of Pawlewski v. Buffalo Board of Education

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 10, 2007, which, among other things, ruled that the employer was not entitled to certain reimbursements.

Claimant, a teacher with the employer since the early 1990s, was injured when she fell at work on December 14, 2004, and she was still out of work at the time of the relevant workers’ compensation hearings. Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement between the employer and claimant’s union, she was entitled to continue to receive regular wages and benefits for up to two years and “the salary allowance paid…