Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we still do have a system where the board basically deals with a person's appeal. A decision is made and if they don't like the decision, they appeal it. It can be appealed by the individual through the Appeals Tribunal, but there is still some management link just by way of administration in that corporation to oversee the process. Again, we are looking under phase two to allow the clarity and identify the transparencies so we have that independency, because there have been overlaps in regard to how appeals have been handled, but also how the Workers' Compensation Board responded to those appeals. Again, we are working through that by the second phase of the legislation. Once we bring forward the second phase of the legislation, hopefully we can have more transparency to separate the independence of these two boards. Thank you.
David Krutko on Question 497-15(3): WCB Appeals Tribunal
In the Legislative Assembly on February 28th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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Question 497-15(3): WCB Appeals Tribunal
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 27th, 2005
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