Ontario will revamp how it compensates injured migrant workers.
Migrant workers pick strawberries at a strawberry farm in Pont Rouge, Que., on August 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques BoissinotWorkplace 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.
Last September, the tribunal ruled that the WSIB was wrong to assume seasonal migrant workers were eligible for a maximum of 12 weeks of income-loss compensation through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program if they had been injured. "If you're injured while working in Ontario or become ill, you are going to be treated equally, you're going to be treated with dignity, you're going to be treated with respect, you're going to be treated with compassion," Lang said.Dr.
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