The Workplace Safety Insurance Board is reviewing how it handles claims for migrant workers following a ruling from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT).

The WSIAT determined the WSIB’s practice of ending compensation to migrant farm workers was illegal, and reinstated Loss of Earnings compensation to a group of four permanently injured migrant workers…

According to the WSIAT decision, the WSIB has been incorrectly reducing compensation for injured migrant workers for decades. “This ruling unequivocally tells WSIB that they are wrong,” says Ramsaroop….

In a statement to Canadian Occupational Safety, the WSIB says it knows it has a responsibility to help migrant workers if they suffer an injury or illness. “If someone gets hurt on the job in Ontario, the WSIB is here to help no matter where they live,” reads the statement, which goes on to explain that the definition of “suitable and available” work for sick or injured migrant workers has been inconsistent over the past several years…

Now the WSIB says it will conduct a review of how it handles claims for people in the federal Season Agricultural Worker program…