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Ontario|Workers CompensationEmployees 638 Can you get your job back? When you are capable of returning to work, employers are responsible for giving you your pre-injury job back, or one that is similar. If you are not able to return to pre-injury employment, but can perform some work, your employer must offer you the first available job that is suited to your skills and physical ability. An employer who violates an employee's return to work rights is subject to substantial penalties.
- Labour Market Re-entry Plan
If your employer does not offer you suitable work, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board may stop your benefits unless you try to find other employment. The Board will assist you in finding work by providing you with a skills and abilities assessment and, if necessary, a Labour Market Re-entry program. If you are found to be capable of returning to the same or similar work, but cannot get your job back, the Labour Market Re-entry program will establish a plan for you to find a new job. The plan usually sets a deadline when you will stop receiving benefits and may also require you to attend training courses.
If you have been given a plan to find new work or assessed as being capable of returning to work and do not agree with the assessment or the plan, you can appeal the decisions.
For assistance with getting your job back after you have been on benefits, you can contact your adjudicator at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. This office is listed in the Blue pages of your telephone book.
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