Burns v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

WOODS, P. J.

In this proceeding we review an order reversing a decision of the Rehabilitation Bureau (Bureau) that awarded retroactive vocational rehabilitation temporary disability indemnity (VRTD) to a retired Los Angeles County (County) deputy sheriff. We are presented with the issue whether a county may refuse to provide VRTD to an industrially injured public safety worker because the worker receives a County Employees Retirement Law (CERL) (Gov. Code, § 31450 et seq.) disability pension and a Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) service pension that was earned solely as a…