Where compensation payable by law of foreign country, worker to elect. (7) Paragraph 3 of subsection (3) is repealed on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor. (9) On and after the 2nd day of January, 1992, a multi-employer benefit plan shall contain and, if it does not do so, shall be deemed to contain provisions sufficient, (a) to enable all employers who participate in the plan to be exempted under subsection (8) from the requirement to make contributions; and. The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Regulation) is supplementary law developed by WorkSafeBC in consultation with the industry stakeholders to ensure worker safety. R.S.O. (2) The board of directors shall ensure that a review is performed each year of the cost, efficiency and effectiveness of at least one program that is delivered by the Board. 155. (1) The Board shall determine its own practice and procedure in relation to applications and proceedings and may, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, make rules governing such practice and procedure and the exercise of its powers in relation thereto and prescribe such forms as are considered advisable. (b) after it receives a copy of a second medical assessment if one was required. When a worker is injured, which parties are needed to provide information in order to process a workers' compensation board (WCB) claim? (5) An appointment of a president by the Lieutenant Governor in Council made on or after November 1, 1995 and before the date on which the Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act, 1995 receives Royal Assent shall be deemed to have been authorized under the Act at the time it was made. (18) The amounts payable under this section as periodic payments shall be increased if the worker’s death occurred on or before the 30th day of June, 1985 by adding thereto a factor of 5 per cent effective the 1st day of July, 1985, but the total periodic payments after the application of this subsection shall not exceed 90 per cent of the net average earnings of the deceased worker at the time of injury, calculated as if the worker’s average earnings were the maximum amount determined under section 38. Names of former employers to be furnished by claimants. Based on the Meredith Principles, workers were eligible for benefits when injury occurred, but in exchange, employers could not be sued. (8) A medical practitioner shall promptly forward a copy of a medical assessment to the Board. 1990, c. W.11, s. 60 (1); 1994, c. 24, s. 14 (1); 1995, c. 5, s. 9 (1). (a) effective on the 2nd day of January, 1990, is the maximum amount of average earnings determined under this section as it read immediately before the 2nd day of January, 1990; (b) effective on the 1st day of January, 1991, is $42,000; and. 1990, c. W.11, s. 31. 1990, c. W.11, s. 106. R.S.O. (10) Employers in industries in which it is considered proper may be required by the Board to maintain as may be directed by the Board such first-aid appliances and service as the Board may direct, and the Board may make such order respecting the expense thereof as may be considered just. 1995, c. 5, s. 27. (1) may elect to become members of class. Sections 70, 73 and 74 apply with necessary modifications to the Appeals Tribunal as if a reference to the Board were a reference to the Appeals Tribunal. (9) After maximum medical rehabilitation of an injured worker is achieved, a medical assessment of the worker shall be conducted. (3) The board of directors of the Board shall give its determination and direction, if any, under this section in writing together with its reasons therefor. R.S.O. (1) The Appeals Tribunal may confirm, vary, reverse or uphold any decision of the Board under appeal. (1) Where the compensation is payable by an employer individually or out of the accident fund, the Board may commute the weekly or other periodical payments payable to a worker or dependant for a lump sum, and may charge the same to the employer or to the accident fund, as the case may be. For more information on determining volunteer or worker status or for coverage details, employers should contact WorkSafeBC's information line at 1-888-922-2768. 1990, c. W.11, s. 26. 1990, c. W.11, s. 95 (5); 1993, c. 38, s. 71 (3). (1.3) The indexing factor that applies with respect to the benefits described in subsection (1.2) is to be determined on January 1 in each year and is the amount of the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for Canada for all items, for the 12-month period ending October 31 of the previous year, as published by Statistics Canada. (1) The Board may deduct from money payable to a person by the Board all or part of a debt due to the Board from the person. R.S.O. 1994, c. 24, s. 33 (3). Services under this Act shall, where appropriate, be made available in the French language. 50. 22.1 A person receiving benefits or who may be entitled to receive benefits under the Act shall notify the Board of a material change in circumstances in connection with his or her entitlement to benefits within 10 days after the material change occurs. (6.1) The amount of compensation payable under this section shall be adjusted on January 1 each year. Found inside – Page 1007( b ) Canada , west of the 75th degree and east of the 110th degree west longitude , is assigned to District No. ... The obligations of the policy include the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers ' Compensation Act , as extended by the ... State-based workers' compensation programs, one of the oldest types of social insurance programs in the United States, provide critical medical and income support to workers injured or made sick on the job. Compensation is to be paid out of an accident fund. (2) Subject to subsection (3), a health professional who receives a request from a worker or the employer shall provide each of them and the Board with a report containing the prescribed information. 1990, c. W.11, s. 53 (4-8). Extension of section to pneumoconiosis, etc. In order to maintain the accident fund as provided by section 101, the Board may from time to time and as often as may be considered necessary include in any sum to be assessed upon the employers and may collect from them such sums as are considered necessary for that purpose, and the sums so collected shall form a reserve fund and shall be invested in any of such securities as a trustee may invest in under the Pension Benefits Act. SECTION 6: [Workers Compensation Act, section 99] repeals the requirement for Board approval before an officer may lay an information in respect of an offence. (6) A worker for whom funds are being set aside under subsection (1) may select the payment scheme for the worker’s retirement pension from among the schemes and subject to the restrictions prescribed in the regulations. R.S.O. Whenever the Lieutenant Governor in Council is of opinion that the condition of the accident fund is such that with the reserves, exclusive of the special reserve, it is not sufficient to meet all the payments to be made in respect of compensation as they become payable and so as not unduly or unfairly to burden the employers in any class in future years with payments that are to be made in those years in respect of accidents that have happened in previous years, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may require the Board to make a supplementary assessment of such sum as in the opinion of the Lieutenant Governor in Council is necessary to be added to the fund, and, when such a requirement is made, the Board shall make such supplementary assessment forthwith and it shall be made in like manner as is hereinbefore provided as to other special assessments and all the provisions of this Part as to special assessments apply to it. 87. This law is called the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 . 112. Accident on steamboat or vessel outside of Ontario. (c) the size of the relative entitlements of those so entitled without reference to this subsection. (b) there appears to the Appeals Tribunal to be good reason to doubt the correctness of the decision. In Canada, the workers compensation system has its origins in the Meredith Report. 2. An amount levied under subsection 103 (4.1) shall be added to the amount payable by an employer under subsection (1). All classes may be assessed for deficiency in any of them. (1) An employer, throughout the first year after an injury to a worker, shall make contributions for employment benefits in respect of the worker when the worker is absent from work because of the injury. 4. (4) The board of directors may delegate in writing any of the Board’s powers or duties, subject to such limitations, conditions and requirements as are set out in the delegation, to any director, officer or employee of the Board who may act in the place and stead of the board of directors and when a delegate acts in the place and stead of the board of directors, it shall be presumed conclusively that the delegate acted in accordance with the delegation. 1990, c. W.11, s. 86. 133. If the chair does not do so, the board of directors may decide which of them shall act in the chair’s absence. Found inside – Page 19271910 ; Summary of Foreign Workmen's Compensation Acts ; Cost of Employers ' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Acts ... 76 Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907 ; What is Done for the Unemployed in European Countries ... 128. (b) a member of a municipal volunteer fire brigade or a municipal volunteer ambulance brigade. 29. (4) If a worker dies before beginning to receive or while receiving a retirement pension under this section, the spouse and dependants of the worker shall receive such benefits as may be prescribed by regulation. Workers' Compensation Boards/Commissions (WCBs) administer the workers' compensation legislation (generally the Workers' Compensation Act) of the province/territory that they are in. (8) The cost of maintaining and administering the superannuation fund shall be deemed part of the cost of the administration of this Act and is chargeable to the accident fund. Issued September 30, 2009; Editorial Revision April 6, 2020. (14) Compensation for future loss of earnings is payable in monthly or other periodic payments except as provided in subsection (15). R.S.O. 1990, c. W.11, s. 146. and subsection 69 (2) applies with necessary modifications where a matter referred to in that subsection is raised in an appeal. (1) An appeal to the Appeals Tribunal lies from a decision of the Board with respect to the matters referred to in clauses 86 (1) (b) and (c). An employer who fails to comply with subsection 133 (1) is guilty of an offence. (4) Vocational rehabilitation services provided under subsection (3) may include consultation, the provision of information and the planning and design of a vocational rehabilitation program. (5) Where an accident happens out of Ontario on a steamboat, ship or vessel, or on a railway or on an aircraft, or on a truck, bus or other vehicle used in the transportation of passengers or any goods or substance, and the residence of the worker is in Ontario and the work or service rendered by the worker is required to be performed both in and out of Ontario, the worker is or his or her dependants are entitled to compensation under this Part as if the accident had happened in Ontario. Principles of Workers' Compensation in Canada. (5) Where the employer was accustomed to paying the worker a sum to cover any special expenses entailed on the worker by the nature of the employment, that sum shall not be reckoned as part of the worker’s earnings. The OHSA doesn't apply to: people who are covered by the Canada Labour Code. (1) Upon receipt of a notice of appeal, the Appeals Tribunal shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Board and the parties of record of the appeal and the issue or issues in respect of which the appeal is brought and shall furnish the same with copies of any written submissions made with respect thereto. 149. Optional personal coverage is 153. Workers Compensation Act. R.S.O. R.S.O. 17. Power to grant exemptions in certain cases. (13) Where possible, the Board shall review its determination of the amount of compensation payable to a worker under this section. (1) Subsections 76 (1) and (2) apply with necessary modifications to the chair, vice-chairs and other members of the Appeals Tribunal, to all officers and employees of the Appeals Tribunal and any person engaged by the Appeals Tribunal to conduct an examination, test or inquiry, or authorized to perform any function under this Act. The Alaska Workers' Compensation Act requires each employer having one or more employees in Alaska to obtain workers' compensation insurance, unless the employer has been approved as a self-insurer by the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board. (5) Failure to give the prescribed notice or to make such claim or any defect or inaccuracy in a notice does not bar the right to compensation if in the opinion of the Board the employer was not prejudiced thereby or, where the compensation is payable out of the accident fund, if the Board is of opinion that the claim for compensation is a just one and ought to be allowed. Any pension for old age security that the worker is eligible for under section 3 of the Old Age Security Act (Canada). (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Board may by regulation. Compensation Guide for Quebec Workers1 0.0- General Introduction: Worker Compensation in Quebec Before the first workers' compensation act was adopted in 1909, workers were restricted to suing their employers through the Civil code of Lower Canada, in order to be compensated for work (6) The Board may file a certified copy of the order made under subsection (5) in a court of competent jurisdiction and thereupon the order shall be deemed to be an order of that court and may be enforced as such. (1) There shall be included among the debts that, under the Assignments and Preferences Act, the Trustee Act, and the Corporations Act, are, in the distribution of the property, in the case of an assignment or death or in the distribution of the assets of a company being wound up, under the said Acts respectively, to be paid in priority to all other debts, the amount of any assessment or compensation the liability wherefore accrued before the date of the assignment or death or before the date of the commencement of the winding up, and the said Acts have effect accordingly. 1990, c. W.11, s. 64. (15) Subsection (14) does not operate to displace the seniority provisions of a collective agreement. (1) A worker shall be deemed not to have undertaken the risks due to the negligence of his or her fellow workers and contributory negligence on the part of a worker is not a bar to recovery by the worker or by any person entitled to damages under Part V of the Family Law Act in an action for the recovery of damages for an injury sustained by or causing the death of the worker while in the service of his or her employer for which the employer would otherwise have been liable. R.S.O. (3) In the case of an employer in an industry included in Schedule 1, the Board has the same powers and is entitled to the same remedies for enforcing payment of an overpayment as it has for payment of assessments. (c) a person deemed to be a worker of an employer by a direction or order of the Board. R.S.O. R.S.O. 81. (8) If a worker is mentally incapable of making the election under subsection (1) or is unconscious as a result of his or her injury and no committee has been appointed, the worker’s dependent spouse may make such election, but if no election is made within sixty days after the day of the injury, the Public Trustee shall elect on behalf of the injured worker. R.S.O. 1990, c. W.11, s. 16; 1994, c. 24, s. 5. (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Board may make such regulations as may be considered expedient for carrying out the provisions of this Part. (4) A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement or representation to the Board to obtain payment for goods or services provided to the Board, whether or not the Board received the goods or services, is guilty of an offence. 1994, c. 24, s. 29. R.S.O. R.S.O. 107. Requiring deposits by employers in Schedule 2. Workers Compensation Act. R.S.O. (2) The memorandum of understanding must impose the following requirements: 1. R.S.O. (c) the probable unemployment insurance premiums payable by the worker. (8) It shall be the function of the Panel. (2) The notice may be sent by post to the employer and shall be deemed to have been given to the employer on the day on which the notice was posted. “pre-1985 Act” means this Act as it read on the 31st day of March, 1985, as amended by the Statutes of Ontario, 1984, chapter 58, section 37 and 1985, chapter 3, sections 6, 7, 8 and 9; (“Loi d’avant 1985”), (a) a personal injury by accident or an industrial disease that occurred before the 1st day of April, 1985, or, (b) death that occurred before the 1st day of April, 1985, resulting from an injury by accident or an industrial disease; (“lésion d’avant 1985”), “pre-1989 Act” means this Act as it read immediately before the 26th day of July, 1989, excluding Part III thereof; (“Loi d’avant 1989”). 137. 114. Marginal note: Persons eligible for compensation 4 (1) Subject to this Act, compensation shall be paid to (a) an employee who (i) is caused personal injury by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, or (ii) is disabled by reason of an industrial disease due to the nature of the employment; and (b) the dependants of an employee whose death results from such . The Workers Compensation Act sets out safety requirements legislated by the provincial government. (e) to the board, officers, authority or court, such amount as an accountable advance in respect of any expenses or expenditures that may be paid under paragraph (c) or (d) as, in the opinion of the Treasury Board, is expedient. (4) Nothing in this section entitles a person to claim additional compensation for any period before the effective date of an increase as a result of subsection (2) or with respect to any award commuted or paid as a lump sum before the effective date. (15) If a second medical assessment is required, the Board shall provide the worker and the employer with a list of at least three medical practitioners selected from a roster, from among whom the worker and the employer, by agreement and within thirty days after receiving the list, may select a medical practitioner who shall conduct the medical assessment. 122. R.S.O. (6) If a trainee in respect of whom subsection (4) applies suffers a personal injury by accident or occupational disease while on a placement with a placement host then, despite subsection (4). (6) Every employer who makes default in paying the wages and benefits prescribed by subsection (2) shall, in addition to any other penalty or liability, pay to the Board a sum equal to the amount of such wages and benefits and payment of such amount may be enforced in the same manner as the payment of an assessment may be enforced. 1995, c. 5, s. 19. 1990, c. W.11, s. 113 (1). The United States' and Canada's workers' compensation system have many similarities, but there are several significant differences. 76 (1, 2), 88 (2, 3), Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act, 1996. 1993, c.10, s.55(1). (21) A worker may apply to the Board for a redetermination of the degree of the worker’s permanent impairment, (a) if the Board has determined that the worker has a permanent impairment; and. Found inside – Page 52As Extended by District of Columbia Workmen's Compensation Act, Defense Base Act, War Hazards Compensation Act, ... not citizens of the United States and who are not residents of the United States or Canada , shall be in the same amount ... (5) Where the worker has not been paid the wages and benefits prescribed by subsection (2), the Board shall pay to or on behalf of the worker the wages and benefits prescribed by subsection (2). Where the Board finds that an employer has employed a minor in contravention of the law and a claim for injury to the minor is made, such unlawful employment does not affect or prejudice the right of the claimant, but the Board may exclude the industry from the class in which it is included and, if it is so excluded, the employer is individually liable to pay the compensation to which the minor or any dependant of the minor is entitled. (2) Subject to subsections (9) and (10), the Board shall give a supplement to a worker who, in the opinion of the Board, is likely to benefit from a vocational rehabilitation program which could help to increase the worker’s earning capacity to such an extent that the sum of the worker’s earning capacity after vocational rehabilitation and the amount awarded for permanent partial disability approximates the worker’s average or net average earnings, as the case may be, before the worker’s injury. 90 per cent of the worker’s net average earnings after the injury, if any. (3) The Board shall report to the Minister whenever it exercises a power or performs a duty that relates to a policy direction. 80. 156. 1995, c. 5, s. 27. (a) providing for contributions to the superannuation fund by the full-time members of the board of directors and employees of the Board; (b) providing for the terms and conditions upon which any superannuation or other allowance shall be payable out of the superannuation fund and the persons to whom the superannuation or other allowance may be paid; (c) providing for the terms and conditions upon which funds will be received and transferred under subsections (9), (10) and (11); (d) providing for the terms and conditions under which agreements may be entered into under subsection (11). 1990, c. W.11, s. 142. 1990, c. W.11, s. 35 (1, 2). Apportionment of burden of assessment to hazard of business, etc. Where the worker was at the date of the accident under twenty-one years of age and the review takes place more than six months after the accident, the amount of a weekly payment may be increased to the sum to which the worker would have been entitled if his or her average earnings had at the date of the accident been equal to what, if the worker had not been injured, he or she would probably have been earning at the date of the review. (3) The decision of the majority of the quorum present and constituting the Appeals Tribunal is the decision thereof, but, if there is no majority vote, the decision of the chair or the vice-chair governs. R.S.O. 38. (a) any person in the service of Her Majesty who is paid a direct wage or salary by or on behalf of Her Majesty. The Workers' Compensation Board website has described the work of the WCB as a system that protects employers and workers against the full impact of work-related injuries and illness. (1) Where personal injury is caused to a worker by reason of any defect in the condition or arrangement of the ways, works, machinery, plant, buildings or premises connected with, intended for or used in the business of the worker’s employer or by reason of the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer acting within the scope of his or her employment, the worker or, if the injury results in death, the legal personal representative of the worker and any person entitled in case of death have an action against the employer, and, if the action is brought by the worker, he or she is entitled to recover from the employer the damages sustained by the worker by or in consequence of the injury, and, if the action is brought by the legal personal representative of the worker or by or on behalf of persons entitled to damages under Part V of the Family Law Act, they are entitled to recover such damages as they are entitled to under that Act. 1995, c. 5, s. 13. 1990, c. W.11, s. 134 (1); 1994, c. 24, s. 31 (1) . (13) Where a child or children is or are entitled to compensation under this section and is or are being maintained by a suitable person who is acting in the role of parent in a manner the Board considers satisfactory, such person while so doing is entitled to receive the same periodic payments of compensation for himself or herself and the child or children as if the person were a spouse of the deceased and in such case the child’s or children’s part of such payments shall be in lieu of the periodic payments that the child or children would otherwise be entitled to receive and, where there is more than one child and more than one person acting in the role of parent, the Board may in its discretion apportion the payments under this section accordingly and, where this subsection applies, the maximum amount payable under this section shall not exceed 90 per cent of the net average earnings of the deceased worker at the time of injury. His final Board may collect assessment through municipal collectors. (3) Unless the mediation is successful the Board shall finally determine the matter within 60 days after the Board receives the objection or application or within such longer period as the Board may permit. 109. Measures Act between the Government of Canada and the Government of New Brunswick in which provision is made for compensation with respect to the injury or death of such workers. 124. 92. (3) The Board, where it considers proper, may add to the amount payable by an employer under subsection (1) a percentage or sum for the purpose of raising special funds and the Board may use such money to meet a loss or relieve any employer in Schedule 2 from all or part of the costs arising from any disaster or other circumstance where, in the opinion of the Board, it is proper to do so. (1) The net average earnings of a worker shall be determined by the Board by deducting from the earnings of a worker. R.S.O. 5. 5. Right of action as against employer in Schedule 1. (2) This Act applies in respect of an accident occurring or a disease contracted within or outside Canada. Charging compensation to particular classes. 0.1 The purpose of this Act is to accomplish the following in a financially responsible and accountable manner: 1. 110. R.S.O. • A member of a municipal volunteer fire brigade. Any direction by the Minister about programs to be reviewed under subsection 77 (2). (1) It is not lawful for an employer, either directly or indirectly, to deduct from the wages of any of the employer’s workers any part of any sum that the employer is or may become liable to pay to the worker as compensation under this Part or to require or to permit any of the employer’s workers to contribute in any manner towards indemnifying the employer against any liability that the employer has incurred or may incur under this Part. 1990, c. W.11, s. 5. R.S.O. (3) Every employer shall keep in such form and with such detail as may be required for the purposes of this Act a careful and accurate account of all wages paid to the employer’s workers and such account shall be kept within Ontario and shall be produced to the Board and its officers when so required. (3) The worker or his or her dependants, if so required, shall furnish the employer mentioned in subsection (2) with such information as to the names and addresses of all the other employers by whom the worker was employed in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due as such worker or his or her dependants may possess, and, if such information is not furnished or is not sufficient to enable that employer to take the proceedings mentioned in subsection (4), that employer upon proving that the disease was not contracted while the worker was in the employer’s employment is not liable to pay compensation. R.S.O. 45. R.S.O. 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