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An independent review found WorkSafeBC had failed people who’ve been hurt on the job.
Andrew MacLeod | November 6, 2020 | TheTyee.ca
When the B.C. government is back to business, George Kavallis hopes it will act on recommendations received more than a year ago on improving the province’s system for helping injured workers.
“We need real substantive change,” said Kavallis, a 47-year-old in Burnaby who is part of the BC Human Rights Organization that advocates on behalf of injured workers. He was injured on the job three years ago.
“They’ve done very little to really move the dial,” he said.
In August, a few weeks before Premier John Horgan called the early election, the government released retired labour lawyer Janet Patterson’s New Directions: Report of the WCB Review 2019.
While waiting for the government to release her report, Patterson produced a 48-page addendum that includes details on some of what she heard during the consultation process.