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WorkSafeNB CEO Hints At Assessment Rate Drop
Tim Petersen discussed assessment rates and benefits at a Saint John Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Now Is Not The Time To Increase Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Opinion: Proposed worker’s compensation changes will hurt businesses and it’s dangerous to implement them when many are just starting to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Newly Institute Promises A Mental Health ‘Paradigm Shift’ With New Fredericton Clinic
The Newly Insitiute’s Fredericton’s opening represents the first phase of its national expansion strategy. The goal of the strategy is to become Canada’s largest operator of mental health, addiction, trauma, and chronic pain clinics.
Improvements Considered To Workers’ Compensation System
Increasing the percentage paid for loss of earning benefits from 85 to 90 percent and boosting the maximum annual earnings threshold so more workers have their full wages covered are possible changes.
Workplace Fatality At AIM Recycling
Emergency crews were called to the industrial facility on the city’s west side around 9:15 a.m., November 24.
WorkSafeNB Assessment Rates Will Drop 22 percent In 2022
Average assessment rates will drop from 2021’s rate of $2.17 per $100 of assessable payroll to $1.69 in 2022.
N.B. Introduces Workers’ Compensation Changes To Lower Rates, Enhance Safety
Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Trevor Holder said the changes are meant to make workplaces safer and ensure employees safely return to work as soon as they are able to.
Irving Oil Refinery Explosion Charges Set Over Until February
WorkSafeNB says three charges were laid under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS) in connection with the explosion that occurred in October 2018.
WorkSafeNB Announces 9.4 Per Cent Assessment Rate Reduction For Businesses
There’s still a ways to go to bring the rate down to where it was three years ago, but WorkSafe NB is taking a step in that direction with the announcement that the provisional assessment rate for businesses will drop to $2.40 per $100 of payroll.