Basics
This 3-letter acronym is what you can use to remember what deductions are made from gross earnings.
What is ICE? (Income tax, CPP and EI)
This type of worker has a term of employment expected to last 12 months or more and is NOT subject to regular layoffs due to lack of work, shut down, or seasonal factors.
What is a permanent worker?
When a worker holds two or more jobs at the same time, the earnings from their second job are called this.
What are concurrent earnings?
This is the work cycle description for someone who works 3 on, 3 off, 6 on, 2 off; 10 hours per day.
What is 90 hours, 9 on, 5 off?
What is 14 calendar days?
According to Policy 04-01, these are the maximum compensable gross earnings as of 2024.
What is $104,600?
This type of worker has a term of employment that is expected to last LESS than 12 months or their position IS subject to regular layoffs due to lack of work, shut downs or seasonal factors.
What is a non-permanent worker?
What is a base rate?
This type of shift cycle has a specific pattern that repeats over a defined period of time. Some common examples include the '4 ON, 3 OFF' or '5 ON, 2 OFF'.
What is a repeating shift cycle?
Kwame works Thursday through Sunday. (4 ON 3 OFF). He was injured on May 4, 2023. This is the shift cycle start date you would enter in eCO
What is April 27, 2023?
This is what the initial compensation rate on a claim is called.
What is a Section 56 rate?
The day the employer first hired employees working in the same position as the worker (e.g., seasonal worker) is known as this.
What is the position start date?
Using this type of earnings typically gives you the fairest representation of the worker's earnings capacity because it includes holiday pay, overtime, shift premiums, and bonuses.
What are gross earnings?
This term refers to the first day of work in a shift cycle, and it must be before the DOA.
What is a shift cycle start date?
These are three resources you can use to support you with rate setting.
What are (any 3 of the following):
>The Payment Unit site on the EW?
>WCB Policy 04-01, Parts I & II?
>Rate Setting Online Procedure?
>Call the POWW line and speak with a payment specialist
Section 56 of the Act tells WCB to pay compensation benefits based on this percentage.
What is 90% of net earnings?
When a worker works less than 30 hours per week they are considered _________.
What is part-time?
This is the name of the website that contains tools you can use to perform an "apples to apples" comparison of earnings information (e.g. pro-rate less than a year of gross earnings)
What is the Payment Assistant?
If the worker's schedule varies and does not follow a repeating pattern from week to week, you would use the following shift cycle.
What is 7 ON and 0 OFF?
To use a Standard Shift Cycle in eCO, the shift cycle start date must fall on this date of the week.
What is Monday? Remember: If the shift cycle start date falls on any other day, you will use a Custom Shift Cycle.
We can only use these types of earnings when setting a rate.
What are taxable employment earnings (or taxable earnings from an employment source)?
These are three types of alternate employment.
What are (any 3 of the following):
>Owner/operators?
>Subcontractors?
>Piece workers?
>Commission workers?
This is the name of the type of calculation you do when you are calculating what a period of gross earnings equals over a year.
What is pro-rating?
This is the work cycle description for someone who works 8hrs/day Monday-Friday one week, then Monday - Saturday the next week. (HINT: Specific answer)
What is 88hrs, 11on, 3 off?
These are the four pieces of information you need to set a rate.
What are employment type, earnings, payee and shift cycle?