First

Session, 51st General Assembly

Charles III, 2026

BILL 10

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT, 2022

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE MIKE

GOOSNEY

Minister

Responsible for Workplace NL

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Workplace

Health, Safety and Compensation Act, 2022 to

add a definition of

"temporary earnings loss benefits"; and

modify the

calculation of retirement benefits .

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH,

SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT, 2022

Analysis

S.2 Amdt .

Interpretation

S.85 Amdt .

Retirement benefits

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2022 cW-11.1

as amended

1. Subsection 2(1) of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act,

2022 is amended by adding

immediately after paragraph ( hh ) the following:

(hh.1) "temporary earnings loss benefits"

means those benefits established

as temporary earnings loss benefits by a policy established by the board of

directors under subsection 7(1);

2. Subsection 85(1) of the Act is repealed

and the following substituted:

Retirement

benefits

85 .

(1) Where a worker who is in receipt of extended

earnings loss benefits on or after January 1, 2019 in

respect of an injury reaches the age of 65 years, the worker is entitled to

receive a lump sum payment equal to

(a) 5%

of the following benefits paid to the worker in respect of the injury, together

with accrued interest:

(

i) extended earnings

loss benefits, and

(ii) where

the worker received temporary earnings loss benefits for more than 24 months,

the temporary earnings loss benefits paid to the worker for the period in excess of 24 months; or

(b) 10%

of the following benefits paid to the worker in respect of the injury, together

with accrued interest, where the worker is or was at the time of the injury a

member of an employer-sponsored pension plan:

(

i) extended earnings

loss benefits, and

(ii) where

the worker received temporary earnings loss benefits for more than 24 months,

the temporary earnings loss benefits paid to the worker for the period in excess of 24 months.

Commencement

3. This Act is considered

to have come into force on January 1, 2019.

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