Effective date: January 1, 2019
Application: Applies to all claims.
Policy subject: Return to work and vocational rehabilitation
Purpose:
To establish guidelines for determining earnings loss benefits if a worker’s return to work (RTW) is interrupted because of a layoff, strike, lockout, termination, weather or state of emergency.
Layoff, for the purpose of this policy, means the temporary, indefinite or permanent interruption of a worker’s employment by an employer due to a lack of work. This includes, but is not limited to:
Termination, for the purpose of this policy, includes situations where the employer initiates the worker’s separation from employment for any reason other than a layoff.
Suitable productive employment, for the purpose of this policy, means work that:
Earnings Loss Benefits – Temporary Restrictions
Layoff
Strike, Lockout, Termination, State of Emergency or Weather
Long-Term Earnings Loss Benefits – Permanent Restrictions
Reducing Earnings Loss
Terminating Benefits
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
Sections 26, 47(1), 51, 53, 68(1), 101
The Saskatchewan Employment Act
The Emergency Planning Act
(1) POL and PRO 09/2016, Compensation – Layoff, Strike, Lockout or Termination (effective June 01, 2016 to 31 December 2018).
(2) POL and PRO 02/2008, Compensation – Layoff, Strike, Lockout or Termination (effective 01 February, 2008 to May 31, 2016).
(3) POL 07/96, Return-to-Work Plan – Layoff (effective 01 April, 1996 to January 31, 2008).