Bill 194 explained in plain English
WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2020
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This Act ensures workers in residential care facilities and group homes are covered by the WSIB by classifying their employers as Schedule 1 employers.
This bill amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997, to ensure that employers operating residential care facilities (like retirement homes, rest homes, and senior citizens' residences) and group homes are considered Schedule 1 employers. This means their workers will be covered by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). The Act comes into force six months after receiving Royal Assent and is called the WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2020.
- Amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997.
- Classifies employers operating residential care facilities and group homes as Schedule 1 employers.
- Ensures workers in these facilities and homes are covered by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
- Specifies that this classification applies to both public and private employers in these industries.
- States that the Act comes into force six months after receiving Royal Assent.
- Employers operating residential care facilities (including retirement homes, rest homes, and senior citizens' residences).
- Employers operating group homes.
- Workers employed in residential care facilities and group homes.
- The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
- Employers in residential care facilities and group homes are deemed Schedule 1 employers.
- Workers in these facilities and homes are covered by WSIB.
- This Act comes into force six months after the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify the exact date of Royal Assent, only that the Act comes into force six months after it.
- The bill does not detail the specific types of residential care facilities beyond the examples given (retirement homes, rest homes, and senior citizens' residences).
Adds a provision to Section 2 of the Act to define employers of residential care facilities and group homes as Schedule 1 employers for the purposes of WSIB coverage.
Source: Section 1
This Act amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997, to provide that an employer who operates a residential care facility or a group home is a Schedule 1 employer for the purposes of the Act.
Source: Explanatory Note
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