Workers' Compensation General Regulations

(1) Where a worker undergoes medical examination or treatment at the direction or with the approval of the Commission at a place other than that in which he or she resides, he or she shall take the most direct route and use the most economical means of transportation available.

(2) The Commission shall provide a voucher or reimburse the worker for the actual cost of regularly scheduled public transportation, including the cost of necessary transportation by taxi.

(3) Where regularly scheduled public transportation is unavailable or inconvenient, the worker may make use of a private motor vehicle and shall be reimbursed for its use at the rate of $0.710 per km. R-099-2011,s.2; R-075-2012,s.3; R-088-2013,s.2; R-135-2014,s.3; R-107-2015,s.3; R-137-2016,s.3; R-002-2018,s.2; R-039-2019,s.3; R-103-2019,s.3; R-124-2020,s.3; R-080-2021,s.3; R-064-2022,s.3; R-104-2023,s.3; R-105-2024,s.3; R-001-2026,s.3.

(1) Medical aid accounts in respect of injured workers must be rendered as soon as is practicable after the date of the conclusion of the treatment of the worker for whom the service has been provided, or the date it first became known to the health care provider that they were services for which the Commission is liable to pay.

(2) The Commission shall not pay medical aid accounts in respect of injured workers unless they are rendered to it within one year after the provision of the services in respect of which they are rendered, but the Commission may authorize payment of an account if satisfied that the late rendering of the account is excusable under the circumstances, and where an account is not submitted in a current and regular manner the Commission may discount the account in an amount equal to 25% of the sum that it would ordinarily have paid.

(1) For every day of a continuous period that a worker is away from their place of residence, the subsistence allowance for meals and incidental expenses to which the worker is entitled under paragraph 47(1)(a) of the Act is payable in accordance with the Schedule.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if a worker is staying in accommodations in which kitchen facilities are available for their use, the daily subsistence allowance payable under that subsection is reduced as follows:

(3) The daily subsistence allowance for overnight accommodations to which a worker is entitled under paragraph 47(1)(a) of the Act is,

(4) The Commission shall pay to a person escorting a worker referred to in paragraph 47(1)(a) of the Act, a subsistence allowance equal to that payable to the worker under subsections (1) to (3), if the Commission is satisfied that

(5) No subsistence allowance is payable to a worker for a period during which the worker is being provided by the Commission with board and lodging in a hospital or other place of treatment. R-039-2019,s.4; R-130-2020,s.2; R-133-2020,s.2.

(1) A worker’s annual deductions under section 59 of the Act are the Commission’s estimates, based on the worker’s gross annual remuneration as determined in accordance with section 58 of the Act, of the following:

(2) The Commission shall apply the following rules in estimating the income tax payable by a worker for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a):

(1) A director of the Governance Council, other than the chairperson, shall receive remuneration under subsection 86(2) of the Act at the following rates:

(2) If a director is paid his or her regular salary by his or her employer while acting under paragraph (1)(b), the director shall not receive remuneration under subparagraphs (1)(b)(i) to (iii), but if the salary is less than the amount he or she would have received under those subparagraphs, the director shall receive remuneration in an amount equal to the difference.

(3) If a director is absent for 50% or more of a meeting, function, training or official business described in paragraph 1(b), the director shall not be paid remuneration under that paragraph, unless the Governance Council is satisfied that the director has a reasonable excuse for the absence.

(4) The chairperson of the Governance Council shall receive $60,000 for each 12 month period that he or she serves as chairperson. R-093-2014,s.2.

(1) A member of the Appeals Tribunal, other than the chairperson, shall receive remuneration under section 122 of the Act at a rate of $150.00 per hour to a maximum of 7.5 hours in a day, for

(2) If a member is absent for 50% or more of a meeting, function, training or official business described in subsection (1), the member shall not be paid remuneration under that subsection, unless the Appeals Tribunal is satisfied that the member has a reasonable excuse for the absence.

(3) The chairperson of the Appeals Tribunal shall receive remuneration under the terms of a contract for service, the terms of which may not exceed $184,800 each year. R-103-2019,s.4; R-026-2023,s.2.

(1) The penalty payable under paragraph 141(1)(a) of the Act for failing to send a report, return or other information required under the Act, is

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the penalty payable under paragraph 141(1)(a) of the Act for failing to send a payroll statement as required under the Act, is

(3) The minimum penalty under subsection (2) is $25 and the maximum penalty is $10,000.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the penalty payable under paragraph 141(1)(d) of the Act is an amount equal to the product of the following formula:

(A B) x C x 10%

where

(2) No penalty is payable where the actual payroll amount is less than 125% of the stated or estimated payroll.

(3) No penalty shall be imposed if the penalty calculated under subsection (1) is less than $50.

(1) Where the whole or any portion of an assessment levied on an employer is in default after the day on which it is due, the employer shall, in respect of each month or portion of a month that the default continues, pay under paragraph 141(1)(e) of the Act a penalty calculated each month according to the following formula:

A x 2%

where A is the amount in default as adjusted, where applicable, under subsection (2).

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the "amount in default" shall be adjusted, on the first day of every month that the default continues, to include the amount of the penalty payable under that subsection in respect of the previous month, if any.

(1) The amount of expenditure in excess of which a municipal corporation must give written notice under section 160 of the Act is $25,000.

(2) The penalty to which a municipal corporation is subject for contravening section 160 of the Act is $250.