Bill 76 explained in plain English
Workers' Death Benefits Protection Act, 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 76 amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997, to clarify how to calculate death benefits for spouses of retired workers diagnosed with occupational diseases after retirement.
This bill amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997. It ensures that the net average earnings of a deceased worker, who was diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement, are calculated based on their last exposure to the cause of that disease. This is for the purpose of calculating death benefits for their dependants.
- Amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997.
- Establishes a rule for determining the net average earnings of a deceased worker who was diagnosed with an occupational disease after retiring.
- Specifies that these earnings will be calculated as of the date of the worker's last exposure to the agent that caused the occupational disease, for the purpose of calculating death benefits.
- Spouses or dependants of deceased workers who were diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement.
- The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- Right to have death benefits calculated based on last exposure date to occupational disease for certain post-retirement diagnoses.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill text does not specify the exact date of Royal Assent.
Adds a provision to Section 48 to clarify how to calculate the net average earnings of a deceased worker who was diagnosed with an occupational disease after retirement. This calculation is used for determining death benefits.
Source: Section 1
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