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CSST: La CSN, FTQ and CSD voted for a reform that could bring significant setbacks

the FTQ, CSN and CSD have agreed, during the last months of June and July, a drastic reduction in compensation and a policy to make work the injured and sick of work as soon as possible. But an anonymous leak caused an outcry in other unions, prompting the CSST – including the Joint Board is composed equally of representatives of labor and management- to back down on his project. ERRATUM 7 NOVEMBER: The CSST has not declined and adopted the proposals.

In a decision CSST board taken 15 July 2011, and adopted unanimously, the Committee agreed to submit to the Minister of Labor, Lise Thériault, proposals resulting mainly Camiré December report 2010. These proposals would have the effect of reducing significantly the right to compensation for workers and injured workers, perverting the main purpose of the compensation scheme, compensation for occupational injuries and their consequences, to favor an objective of re-integration as quickly as possible in the labor market. The objective of change would aim to reduce the financial burden on employers for health and safety at work, that business is obviously far too heavy and he has long complained.

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CSST: Employers are active for a bad reform

Union for Workers Accident Victims Montreal

Last spring, Labor Minister of the time, David Whissell, announced that he had asked the CSST to form a working group to propose changes to compensation schemes and the prevention of occupational injuries. The Board of Directors of the CSST, which includes equal numbers of union and management members, agreed to form such a working group.

In this context, it is not surprising that employers are actively to further reduce once the rights of workers'. Although his claims "formal" are not yet known, we already know the broad guidelines referred. And it has nothing to celebrate ...

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