Oakland Unified School District, Permissibly Self-Insured; And Jt2 Integrated Resources, Claims Administrator Norris Cooper WORKERS-COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIANORRIS COOPER, Applicant,vs.OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Permissibly Self-Insured; and JT2 INTEGRATED RESOURCES, Claims Administrator, Defendant(s).Case No. ADJ7026270OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION Defendants, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and JT Integrated Resources (JT2). seek reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued on September 29, 2010 (F&A) by the Workers’ Compensation Administrative Law Judge (WCJ). Defendants contend that the WCJ erred in ordering that applicant was entitled to the rate of temporary disability indemnity set forth in Labor Code section 4453. We have not received an answer from Norris Cooper (applicant). We have received a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration (Report) from the WCJ which recommends denial of the petition. We have considered the allegations of the petition for reconsideration. Based upon our review of the record, the Report of the WCJ, and for the reasons discussed below’, w-c will deny defendants’ petition for reconsideration.RELEVANT FACTS On February 28. 2009. while working as a head custodian for defendant OUSD. applicant , sustained injury to his neck, shoulders and right arm. Applicant’s weekly base salary is $671.28, but applicant had been working significant overtime throughout the year before his injury. In the year up to the time of his injury, applicant received an average of SI.356.06 in pay per week.’ In defendants’ petition, defendants sute that for the first sixty days after his injury, applicant received his base salary of SI.454.46 bimonthly from OUSD, without deduction for vacation, sick or other leave (leave). Beginning on May 5, 2009. after the initial sixty days, applicant continued to receive his base salary fro
