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Ontario will revamp how it compensates injured migrant workers. Workplace Safety and Insurance Board president Jeff Lang says the changes affect how the board pays a worker who cannot return to a job due to injury, but is able to work elsewhere. The WSIB pays workers 85 per cent of …
Read More »Ontario WSIB workers are latest public employees offered retroactive Bill 124 pay
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Unionized workers at Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) are the latest group to win retroactive pay for the three years their wages were capped by the Ford government’s wage restraint legislation, Bill 124. On Friday, the Canadian Union of Public …
Read More »Ontario expanding firefighter cancer coverage for WSIB claims
TORONTO — Ontario is expanding workplace coverage of cancers for firefighters. Minister of Labour Monte McNaughton says pancreatic and thyroid cancers in firefighters will now be presumed to be work related. He says this will allow firefighters to speed up their Workplace Safety and Insurance Board claims. McNaughton says the …
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