Session I: When Health Affects Employment
How Federal Leave, OWCP, Accommodation, and Disability Retirement Connect
A 30-minute Konexo educational briefing for federal employees dealing with leave, FMLA, LWOP, medical restrictions, light duty, reasonable accommodation, OWCP, disability retirement questions, or documentation concerns.
The programs are separate. The facts are connected.
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Complete the Intake FormRequest a PresentationWhy This Matters
Federal employees often deal with leave, FMLA, LWOP, medical restrictions, light duty, reasonable accommodation, OWCP, and disability retirement as separate issues. In reality, the same medical facts, job duties, leave history, restrictions, agency responses, and documentation may affect more than one option at once.
Session Content
Federal Leave and FMLA
When leave protections apply and how to use them correctly.
LWOP
How Leave Without Pay affects service computation and retirement eligibility.
Medical Restrictions
What physician-issued restrictions mean and how agencies must respond.
Light Duty and Limited Duty
The difference between the two, and how each connects to other programs.
Reasonable Accommodation
What qualifies, how to document requests, and why the process matters.
OWCP
Workers' compensation benefits, forms, and long-term implications.
OPM Disability Retirement
Eligibility, application, documentation, and the SSDI offset.
Medical Documentation
Why documentation connects all of these programs from the beginning.
How One Decision May Affect Another
The same facts can matter across multiple benefit areas.
The Sequence
Leave
Sick leave, annual leave, and leave sharing exhaust first.
FMLA
Job protection for up to 12 weeks — requires proper designation.
LWOP
Unpaid leave that affects service computation after 6 months per year.
Medical Restrictions
Formal physician restrictions that define what you can and cannot do.
Light Duty / Limited Duty
Temporary assignments based on restrictions — not the same as accommodation.
Reasonable Accommodation
A formal process under federal law — requires documentation and written agency response.
OWCP
Workers' compensation for work-related injuries — interacts with disability retirement.
Disability Retirement
OPM Disability Retirement when restrictions cannot be accommodated in any position.
Why the Connections Matter
Federal employees often deal with these programs as separate issues. In reality, the same medical facts, job duties, leave history, restrictions, agency responses, and documentation may affect more than one option.
The programs are separate. The facts are connected.
What to Keep in Mind
Federal employees may have protections under law, regulation, agency policy, or a collective bargaining agreement. But having a protection on paper does not always mean everything happens automatically, quickly, or correctly at the local level.
Having a protection on paper is not always the same as being protected in real time.
Requests, restrictions, leave usage, OWCP filings, accommodation issues, and disability retirement questions should be documented and handled carefully from the beginning.
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The programs are separate. The facts are connected.
Know Your Options. Protect Your Future.™
Konexo is not a law firm, medical provider, union representative, or financial advisor. Services are educational and organizational in nature. No specific outcome is guaranteed. Final decisions are made by the appropriate federal agency or benefit authority.