Suitability
Injury employers have a duty to modify the work to accommodate the needs of the worker to the extent of this.
What is undue hardship?
According to section 43(1) of the Act, this is when entitlement to payments under this section begin.
What is when the loss of earnings begins?
What are the three employment types a worker can have?
What are permanent, non-permanent and concurrent?
This employer requires you to fax a letter to Access HR when you need to request earnings information.
What is Canada Post?
This is when voluntary overtime is included in the short term rate.
What is when it is worked in EACH of the four weeks leading up to the date of injury?
This is the definition of work that is "Productive".
What is work that consists of work tasks that provide an objective benefit to the injury employer's business, and are performed for the worker's entire work shift?
This section of the Act provides our authority to make presumed deductions when determining a worker's net average earnings.
What is section 55?
Definition of a permanent employment pattern.
What is no end date to the employment contract?
What is a temporary rate?
This type of employer is not eligible to decline reimbursement of advances when a worker is on a graduated return to work plan.
What is schedule 2?
This is the definition of work that is "safe".
What is:
- does not pose a health or safety risk to the worker, co-workers or third parties
- worker is performed at a worksite that is covered by either the OHSA, or Canada Labour Code
- worker is able to travel safely to/from the worksite?
Section 53(1) of the Act, advises that the board will take into account these things when determining a worker's average earnings.
What are:
- the rate per week at which the worker was remunerated by each of the employers form he or she worked at the time of the injury
- any pattern of employment that results in a variation in the worker's earnings
- such information as it considers appropriate
Definition of a non-permanent employment pattern.
What is a contract with an end date? (example, seasonal/cyclical work, temporary workers, worker's hired through a union hall)
Claims that involve workers in construction require this extra document to be included on the file.
What is the construction earnings checklist?
This is the maximum overpayment amount in dollars that an EA or CM can write off.
What is $1000?
This policy outlines the definition of suitable work.
What is policy 19-02-07
Section 43 of the Act tells us that a worker is entitled to LOE benefits if they are co-operating in these two aspects of their claim.
What are health care measures and early & safe RTW or all aspects of a labour market re-entry assessment or plan?
The short term rate is paid for this many weeks.
What are the first 12 weeks of the claim in a claim with ongoing benefits?
Name 3 exception cases by employment type (workers).
What are:
- apartment superintendents
- emergency workers
- probationary workers
- workers on temporary assignments
- apprentices
- landed immigrants
- students
- workers with optional insurance
- dependent contractors
- learners/pupils
- volunteer forces?
When paying on a temp rate, this letter should be sent to the employer in order to collect earnings information required to set the short term rate.
What is the STRLE - Pre-injury earnings to set STR?
These three components make up the definition of suitability.
What are safe, productive and consistent with the worker's functional abilities?
According to section 43 of the Act LOE payments continue to the earliest of:
What is:
- the day on which the worker's loss of earnings ceases;
- the day on which the worker reaches 65 years of age, if the worker was less than 63 years of age on the date of the injury;
- two years after the date of injury, if the worker was 63 years of age or older on the date of the injury;
- the day on which the worker is no longer impaired as a result of the injury?
To be considered "concurrently employed" these conditions must exist.
What is
- the accident employer must have WSIB coverage
- the worker must have more than one contract of employment at the time of injury
- there must be evidence of more than one continuing contract of employment during the four week period prior to the injury or some lesser period and the worker must have received earnings from all concurrent employment in any of the work weeks prior to the injury?
Name 4 employers that special consideration.
What are:
- Canada Post
- Air Canada
- Canadian Pacific
- Chrysler
- GoldCorp
- School Teachers, Educational assistants
- Entertainment industry
- TTC
- Vale?
This tool can help us determine what earnings info to collect in cases where the worker is a self-employed deemed worker.
What is the Self-Employment Earnings Collection tool?