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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-673" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>refer a covered employee who is entitled to vocational rehabilitation services under § 9-672 of this Part XI of this subtitle to an appropriate vocational rehabilitation provider; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>obtain from the provider a vocational rehabilitation plan that includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a vocational assessment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>recommendations for vocational rehabilitation services reasonably necessary to return the disabled covered employee to suitable gainful employment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In determining whether employment is suitable gainful employment, consideration shall be given to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the qualifications, interests, incentives, earnings before the accidental personal injury or date of disablement from the occupational disease, and future earning capacity of the covered employee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the nature and extent of the disability of the covered employee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the current and future condition of the labor market.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On receipt of a vocational rehabilitation plan, the Commission promptly shall give written notice of the contents of the plan to each party.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 15 days after the day of written notification by the Commission of the contents of the vocational rehabilitation plan, any party in interest may request a hearing to contest the plan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At the hearing, the parties may present additional evidence as necessary.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>After the hearing, the Commission shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>wholly or partly accept or reject the vocational rehabilitation plan; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>pass an appropriate order about vocational rehabilitation of the covered employee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
