BILL NO. 42

(as introduced)

1st Session, 64th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
70 Elizabeth II, 2021

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Workers' Compensation Act
(amended)

 

Kendra Coombes
Cape Breton Centre–Whitney Pier

First Reading: October 21, 2021

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill expands the definition of "front-line or emergency-response worker" in the provisions respecting presumptive benefits for workers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the Workers' Compensation Act to include workers carrying out child-protection services.

An Act to Amend Chapter 10
of the Acts of 1994-95,
the Workers' Compensation Act,
Respecting Front-line or Emergency-response Workers

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Subsection 12A(1) of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Workers' Compensation Act, as enacted by Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2017, is amended by adding ", worker carrying out child-protection services" immediately after "officer" in the fourth line of clause (a).

 

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