Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was also pointed out to the standing committee on agencies, boards and commissions, that the Workers' Compensation Board presently has no system of merit rebates or super-assessments for employers who have conscientious or poor work place safety records respectively. Simply stated in the context of this report, "'merit rebates" refer to funds returned to individual employers who meet certain criteria for safety performance, while super-assessments penalize individual employers with poor safety records.
Motion To Accept Recommendation 19, Carried
Therefore, the standing committee on agencies, boards and commissions recommends, and I move that this committee recommend that the Minister evaluate the potential application of merit rebates and super assessments within the assessment framework used by the Workers' Compensation Board; and further, that the Minister include in the legislative action paper a consideration of the legislative amendments which would be required to support a system of merit rebates and super assessments.