§ 5-10-7-4 — Status of employees

(a) Employees of a sending agency participating
in an exchange of personnel as authorized in section 3 of this chapter
may be considered during such participation to be:
(1) on detail to regular work assignments of the sending agency;
or
(2) in a status of leave of absence from their positions in the
sending agency.
(b) Employees who are on detail shall be entitled to the same salary
and benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled and shall remain
employees of the sending agency for all other purposes except that the
supervision of their duties during the period of detail may be governed
by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.
(c) Employees who are in a leave of absence status as provided in
this section shall be carried on leave without pay; provided, that they
may be granted annual leave or other time off with pay to the extent
authorized by law applicable to the sending agency. Except as
otherwise provided in this chapter, employees who are in a leave of
absence status shall have the same rights, benefits, and obligations as
employees generally who are in such leave status but notwithstanding
any other provision of law such employees may be entitled to credit the
period of such assignment toward benefits as employees of the sending
agency.
(d) Any employee who participates in an exchange under the terms
of this section who suffers disability or death as a result of personal
injury arising out of and in the course of an exchange or sustained in
performance of duties in connection therewith shall be treated for the
purposes of the sending agency's employee compensation program as
an employee, as defined in such statute, who has sustained such injury
in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under
that statute for any period for which he is entitled to and elects to
receive similar benefits under the receiving agency's employee
compensation program.
Formerly: Acts 1969, c.384, s.4. As amended by P.L.25-1986,
SEC.32.