Workers' Compensation in Ontario: A Decade of Reform

DIRK DERSTINE AND SHAMASH NATHU

ABSTRACT

Workers' Compensation has seen great changes in this decade. Contentious problems have led to legislative intervention including the recently passed Bill 162. Attempting to balance the interests of labour and management is by no means an easy task; the most current attempts at reform address some problems but raise many unanswered questions. After surveying some of the history and theory behind workers' compensation, this paper reviews some central changes which have taken place in this decade, concentrating on the problems of compensation for permanent partial disabilities, reforms of the administration of the system, and the effects a regime of workers' compensation has on workplace safety.

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Citation: (1990) 48(1) U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 22.
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