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Emergency personnel are pushing for workers compensation to cover mental health leave.
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Emergency personnel are pushing for workers compensation to cover mental health leave. Currently, if a firefighter or police officer suffers PTSD on the job, they’re not covered.
House Bill 3939 states, the “amended bill exempts first responders from having to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions leading to stress, mental injury, or mental illness stemmed from extraordinary or unusual relative to the normal conditions of employment for purposes of collecting workers’ compensation.”
Lexington County Fire Service Chief Mark Davis has been a firefighter for 30 years. He says during his service, he has had at least 100 colleagues and friends experience mental health issues due to the job…
