1. A. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply to Chapter 7.

   1. 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.
   2. Private Agencies—companies which provide vocational rehabilitation services for a fee.
   3. 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.
   4. Rehabilitation—the restoration of an occupationally injured or diseased employee to employment as soon as possible after the injury.
   5. Rehabilitation Services—vocational and/or reemployment services necessary to restore an occupationally disabled employee, as nearly as possible, to his/her pre-injury status.
   6. State and Federal Agencies—those agencies which provide vocational education paid for with tax money.
   7. Suitable Gainful 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.
   8. 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.

Authority Note

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 23:1226.

Historical Note

HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the Department of Labor, Office of Workers' Compensation Administration, LR 11:778 (August 1985), repromulgated LR 13:308 (May 1987), repromulgated by the Department of Employment and Training, Office of Workers' Compensation Administration, LR 18:148 (February 1992), amended by the Louisiana Works, Office of Workers' Compensation Administration, LR 52:500 (April 2026).