If a full-time employee is only able to work part-time as a result of a compensable workers compensation injury, that employee should receive:

• A. Temporary total disability benefits
• B. Temporary partial disability benefits
• C. Permanent partial disability benefits
• D. Permanent total disability benefits

Answer: (B)

When a worker can’t perform their usual full-time job but can still work at partial capacity, the disability is a temporary loss of earning capacity. In workers compensation, that situation is described as temporary partial disability, and benefits are designed to compensate the difference between pre-injury earnings and what the worker can earn during the healing period. Since the employee can still work but only part-time due to the injury, this aligns with temporary partial disability and not with being totally unable to work, permanently unable to work, or having a permanent but partial impairment.