Employers operating in the territory will have to cough up 5 cents more in WorkersSA国际影视传媒� Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) average assessment rates in the new year.
The ante will be upped from $2.05 cents in 2018 to $2.10 in 2019. Come Jan. 1, employers will be required to pay $2.10 to WSCC per $100 in accessible payroll, according to a news release issued by WSCC on Nov. 26.
All employers operating in the NWT and Nunavut are required to pay assessments to the WSCC.
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From 2014 to 2016, the average assessment rate held steady at $2.00 even.
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With WSCC acting, effectively, as an insurance agency, more claims mean more costs.
In July 2017, at a worksite in a quarry near Hwy 3 south of Yellowknife, a young labourer sustained a serious injury after getting his arm caught in a conveyor pulley. The employee was left with steel plates in his arm which will stay there for life.
After WSCC filed five charges against the company and supervisor in June, the transportation company was slapped with a $40,000 fine.
In June 2016, a 19-year-old Australian man employed in Inuvik was killed after a road packing machine flipped over with him inside.
Under the revamped 2019 assessment rates, Outdoor Recreation and Tourism sectors take the biggest hits to their pocketbooks. That SA国际影视传媒渟ubclassSA国际影视传媒� must pay $6.65 in 2019, a nine cent raise from the year before.
Mining operations, mining services, oil and gas servicing, construction and airport transportation make up the rest of the top spots, while Government of the NWT and Nunavut and Public Utilities sits at the bottom on the list. They will pay $1. 57 in 2019, a jump from $0.93 the previously year.
The WSCC offers services to nearly 40,000 workers and 4,000 employees in the NWT, processing over 3,000 claims a year, and conducts over 1,000 inspections yearly to ensure safety regulations are up to part in Northern workplaces and worksites.
