Does the law contain any provisions regarding an employee who sustains an injury while participating in a recreational activity or program?
Benefits are forfeited where the recreational activity or program is the prevailing cause of the injury regardless of the fact that the employer may have promoted, sponsored or supported the recreational activity or program. The forfeiture of benefits does not apply when the employee was directly ordered by the employer to participate in the recreational activity or program, or the employee was paid wages or travel expenses while participating, or the injury occurs on the employer’s premises due to an unsafe condition of the premises and the employer had actual knowledge of the employee’s participation in the recreational activity or program and of the unsafe condition of the premises and failed to stop the activity or cure the unsafe condition.
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