Effective date: October 1, 2022
Application: All employers.
Policy subject: Rate setting, classification, and experience
Purpose:
Establish guidelines to apply discounts or surcharges.
Evaluation Window is the three years of data used to determine an employer’s discount or surcharge. This is the three complete years immediately preceding the year when the discount or surcharge is calculated. For example, discounts and surcharges for 2017 are determined using data from 2015, 2014 and 2013.
Industry rate code means a collective liability grouping comprised of employers with a similar industrial undertaking or injury experience. All employers with the same rate code have the same industry premium rate.
Industry premium rate means the rate applied to all employers within a rate code expressed as a dollar amount for every $100 of assessable payroll.
Base premiums are the employer’s total premiums due before any discounts or surcharges are applied.
Firm rate is the industry premium rate plus or minus any applicable discounts or surcharges an employer may receive.
Standard Program
Advanced Program
Employers Not Eligible
Cost Relief
Appeals
Disclosure of Information
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
116,121(1), 121(2), 122, 139
POL 07/2011 Minimum Annual Assessment
POL 08/2020 Maximum Assessable Wage Rate
POL 20/2013 Appeals – Employer Accounts
POL 21/2013 Appeals – Claims
POL 03/2021 Second Injury and Re-Employment Reserve
POL 05/2014 Occupational Disease Reserve
POL 12/2014 Disaster Reserve
POL 05/2017 Privacy of Information
POL 03/2018 Employer Audits
POL 01/2007 Experience Rating Program