64: Workers Compensation Law (Michelle Alton)

<p>This week, we’re speaking about workplace compensation law with Michelle Alton, general counsel at the Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Topics: COVID-19 and workplace benefits; a new employer rate framework and mental stress claims in the workplace</p> <p> </p> <p>⚫  How does COVID impact worker's eligibility to benefits under the WSIB framework? (7:57)<br /> ⚫  How does a new employer rate framework change the way that employers measure and assess their own risk management?<br /> ⚫  How has the shifting legal view of chronic mental stress apply to the workplace? (27:25)<br /> ⚫  Our Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring five questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (38:44)<br /> 🔵  How does your role as tribunal counsel shape the way that you think about access-to-justice? (39:27)<br /> 🔵  How can tribunals strike the balance between creating a user-centric process while also ensuring fairness for all parties? (43:00)<br /> 🔵  How has COVID impacted the way that workplace compensation law and workplace safety operate? (45:27)<br /> 🔵  What are some of the ways in which you foresee this area of law changing in the next few years? (48:18)<br /> 🔵  Are virtual hearings here to stay? (50:03)</p>