COVID-19 and OWCP -
You have the right to file an OWCP claim for testing positive for
Covid-19
Per National Industrial Relations Director - Vance Zimmerman: "Section
4016 of the law provides that a federal employee who is diagnosed with
COVID-19 and carried out duties that required contact with patients,
members of the public, or co-workers, or included a risk of exposure to
the novel coronavirus during a covered period of exposure prior to the
diagnosis, is deemed to have an injury that is proximately caused by employment"
New Decision Tree as of 11-29-2022
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