Bill 210 explained in plain English
Workers' Death Benefits Protection Act, 2011
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This bill amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997, to ensure that the surviving spouse of a retired worker who died from an occupational disease diagnosed after retirement receives benefits based on the worker's earnings at the time of last exposure to the causative agent.
Bill 210, the Workers' Death Benefits Protection Act, 2011, amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997. It aims to protect benefits for the spouses of deceased retired workers. Specifically, if a retired worker is diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement and then passes away, their net average earnings will be considered the amount they were earning at the time of their last exposure to the agent that caused the disease. This change applies to the calculation of periodic payments to the deceased worker's spouse. The Act comes into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997.
- Establishes a new rule for calculating the net average earnings of deceased retired workers who died from an occupational disease diagnosed after their retirement.
- Specifies that for the purpose of calculating periodic payments to a deceased worker's spouse, the deceased worker's net average earnings will be deemed to be the amount they were earning at the time of their last exposure to the agent that caused the occupational disease.
- Ensures that the spouse of a deceased retired worker with an occupational disease diagnosed post-retirement is protected in terms of benefit calculations.
- Spouses of deceased retired workers.
- Deceased retired workers who were diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement.
- The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) in its administration of benefits.
- The right of a spouse to receive periodic payments calculated based on the deceased worker's earnings at the time of last exposure if the worker died from an occupational disease diagnosed after retirement.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill may impact the amount of death benefits paid out by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to the surviving spouses of certain deceased retired workers.
- No specific enforcement mechanisms or penalties are detailed in the provided text of the bill.
- The exact amount of the deceased worker's earnings at the time of their last exposure to the causative agent needs to be determined for the calculation.
- The specific date of Royal Assent is not provided in the text, but it is the commencement date.
- The bill does not specify how 'retired' is defined in the context of the Act.
Changes how the net average earnings of deceased retired workers are calculated for the purpose of determining benefits for their spouses, specifically when the worker dies from an occupational disease diagnosed after retirement.
Source: Section 1 and Section 2
Adds a qualifying phrase 'Subject to subsection (3.1),' to the existing text concerning the calculation of benefits based on a deceased worker's net average earnings.
Source: Section 1
Adds a new subsection (3.1) that defines how net average earnings are to be calculated for deceased retired workers diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement.
Source: Section 2
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