Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 40 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Part I - Workers' Compensation Administration
Subpart 1 - General Administration
Chapter 7 - Rehabilitation Services
Section I-705 - Definitions

A. For purposes of this Section the following definitions apply.

Evaluation- any testing, analysis or assessment of the occupationally disabled employee's physical and/or vocational capabilities used to determine the need for and practicability of rehabilitation services to restore the employee to gainful employment.

Private Agencies- companies which provide vocational rehabilitation services for a fee.

Reemployment Services- services used to reemploy the occupationally disabled employee in a suitable, gainful occupation as adjusted by his/her physical and vocational ability at that time.

Rehabilitation- the restoration of an occupationally injured or diseased employee to employment as soon as possible after the injury.

Rehabilitation Services- vocational and/or reemployment services necessary to restore an occupationally disabled employee, as nearly as possible, to his/her pre-injury status.

State and Federal Agencies- those agencies which provide vocational education paid for with tax money.

Suitable Employment- employment or self-employment, after rehabilitation which is reasonably attainable and which offers an opportunity to restore the individual as soon as practical and nearly as possible to his average earnings at the time of this injury including any sheltered employment, odd-lot or employment while working in pain.

Vocational Restorative Services- vocational services needed to restore the occupationally disabled employee to his/her pre-injury employment or if that is not possible to that which he/she enjoyed prior to the occupational injury or disease. Such services include but are not limited to, the following: psychological and vocational evaluations, counseling and training services.