The Network’s submission on the proposed draft policy makes detailed recommendations that would ensure entitlement decision-making for communicable illness claims is guided by the evidentiary principles of Ontario’s workers’ compensation law. The OLWCN also strongly supports those submissions calling for a separate policy on COVID-19, given the severity of health consequences and the number of workers who have suffered, or will suffer, as a result to exposure in the workplace.
Download OLCWCN submission re Communicable illnesses policy consultation