MD HB1486

Employees concurrently working for multiple employers at the time of a workplace injury or occupational disease exposure may have wages from all jobs combined when calculating their average weekly wage for workers' compensation benefits, provided the injury prevents them from working at any of those jobs.

The employer where the injury or exposure occurred remains solely liable for compensation; other concurrent employers have no liability created by this wage combination provision.

The Subsequent Injury Fund must reimburse employers for any additional compensation costs that result from the combined wage calculation for permanent partial or permanent total disability cases.

Replaces and expands the existing Section 9-602(l), which limited combined wage calculations to employees working 20 hours or less per week at the job where the injury occurred; the new provision removes this hourly restriction.

Takes effect October 1, 2026, and applies prospectively only to claims arising from events occurring on or after that date.