Health care and social-assistance employees account for 75 per cent of total claims, with the majority of those coming from Quebec and Ontario
While health care workers represent the largest group of claimants, Alberta is an exception, with the bulk of its COVID-19 workers compensation submissions stemming from the meat-processing industry. The two largest single-site outbreaks in Canada were at slaughterhouses in that province.
Workers compensation boards are expected to be able to handle the crush of claims related to COVID-19 because these filings are being offset by dropping submissions in sectors where employees are working from home or were laid off. People in Ontario who work in nursing and residential care facilities, hospitals and ambulatory care collectively submitted 3,730 COVID-19 claims to the province’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. This represents 71 per cent of the 5,210 COVID-19 claims filed with WSIB as of July 3, according to data it posts online. Health care claimants make up roughly 73 per cent of WSIB’s accepted and pending cases.
More than 93,000 people in Quebec and Ontario have been infected by the coronavirus, which created a crisis in their long-term care facilities. Income replacement payouts for COVID-19 injuries in Quebec are, on average, less than $2,000, compared with an average of $8,500 a claim over the past two years, according to that province’s board. Roughly 75 per cent of COVID-19-related payouts end in 14 days or less, the agency said.
Provincial and territorial boards, which administer insurance plans funded by employers, replace wages when an employee is injured and, in some cases, provide cash for health-related expenses such as physiotherapy. Workers compensation rules and what is covered vary from province to province.
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