By Gerald
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Questionable is whether Bill 30 will address this. At present it is the Government who enacted the WCA (Section 63 of the WCA) that allowed WCB to provide an imaginary job with imaginary earnings. The blame cannot be placed on the WCB as they are simply doing what the Government has allowed them to do. Any one who is familiar with the WCA will find that workers are blaming the wrong people as WCB simply follows the WCA based on their interpretation of the “Act” which in many cases is the incorrect interpretation of the “Act” . Even when WCB or the Appeals Commission know that the interpretation of the “Act” is incorrect, they will continue to use their interpretation until the Court on a question of law, makes a correction. For example: WCB knows that the burden of proof is on the “Board” yet force workers to prove their claim. WCB knows that chronic pain is not provided a PCI rating but do not provide a PCI rating for chronic pain in itself. WCB knows that an impairment rating does not equate to a disability rating, yet they continue to use impairment ratings as a direct method of rating an earning loss. unless a worker has the ability and knowledge to represent themselves in court or has the financial ability to hire an experienced lawyer to represent them, WCB and the Appeals Commission will continue to contravene the law.
