- Consultation on proposed amendments to Part 6 of the OHS Regulation February 1, 2023
Our Policy, Regulation and Research Department is requesting feedback on proposed amendments to Part 6, Substance Specific Requirements, sections 6.1–6.2.3, of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. The amendments are related to asbestos certification and licensing.
Continue reading → - Revised / Rescinded Policies January 31, 2023
The WCB Board of Directors has recently approved amendments to the following policies:
Continue reading → - Revised WCB Policies January 25, 2023
Amendments have been made to the following WCB policies to reflect the recent amendments to the Workers Compensation Act and General Regulations:
Continue reading → - Schedule 2: 2021 actual administration rates January 24, 2023
At the beginning of each year, we set a provisional administration rate for Schedule 2 organizations, which we use to determine your monthly administration charges for that year.
Continue reading → - Notice to employers: payments and payroll reports January 24, 2023
It’s time to report your annual payroll (Form 100). The filing deadline is Feb. 28, 2023.
Continue reading → - Survey – Share your feedback on the OWC/OEA NS January 20, 2023
Share your feedback on the OWC/OEA NS
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As a Nova Scotian worker, employer, safety leader or workplace safety system employee, we are reaching out today to ask for your perspective. - WCB approves 2023 premium rates December 12, 2022
2023 average premium rate remains among lowest in Canada
Regina, Sask., Dec. 12, 2022 – The Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) has approved the 2023 average employer premium rate of $1.28 per hundred dollars of payroll. This is an increase of 4.1 per cent from the 2022 rate of $1.23.
Continue reading → - Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission Release Assessment Rates for 2023 November 28, 2022
Yellowknife, NT (November 28, 2022) – The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (WSCC) announces that the average employer assessment rate is remaining at $2.40 per $100 of assessable payroll, unchanged since 2020.
Continue reading → - WCB Nova Scotia’s CEO Stuart MacLean announces retirement November 7, 2022
November 7, 2022
After 36 years, Stuart MacLean is retiring from WCB Nova Scotia.
Stuart has served as the organization’s CEO since 2012. In that time, he guided the WCB through a comprehensive modernization and into an era of financial sustainability, and workplace injury has declined by nearly 20 percent in our province.
Continue reading → - WCB announces rates, surplus and pursuit of benefit enhancements November 7, 2022
November 7, 2022
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of PEI is pleased to announce a 4.2% reduction of its estimated average assessment rate for Islander employers for 2023. This brings the 2023 rate to $1.37, down from $1.43 in 2022.
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