Ontario Court confirms WSIAT finding that workers stationed at a remote location travelling to and from restaurant on a lunch break “were acting in the course of their employment”

17. January 2017 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Workers Compensation Boards – Workers Compensation – Worker defined – In and out of the course of employment – Personal time – Judicial review – Standard of review – Reasonableness Blatz v. Ontario (Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal), [2016] O.J. No. 6154, 2016 ONSC 7259, Ontario ...

The court upheld a decision of the Appeals Commission of the Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board that an equipment operator who answered a personal call from his daughter after her car went off the road was acting in the course of his employment

22. June 2010 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Workers Compensation Boards – Workers Compensation – Worker, defined – In and out of the course of employment – Personal time – Judicial review – Standard of review – Reasonableness simpliciter Pontes Estate v. Alberta (Appeals Commission for Alberta Workers’ Compensation), [2010] A.J. No. 487, 2010 ABQB ...