{"id":3206,"date":"2024-01-24T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safecarebc.ca\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:12:30","slug":"worksafebc-wants-your-feedback-proposed-changes-to-compensation-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/?p=3206","title":{"rendered":"WorkSafeBC wants your feedback | Proposed changes to compensation calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WorkSafeBC is releasing a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worksafebcmedia.com\/enews\/prrd\/231220-rscm\/231220.html#msdynttrid=VceVe8kY-V99QhtLRBVg7VY9mqHpxXcBW6NfLlszxJE\">discussion paper<\/a>&nbsp;with proposed amendments to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worksafebc.com\/en\/resources\/law-policy\/rehabilitation-services-and-claims-manual-volume-ii\/rehabilitation-services-and-claims-manual-volume-ii\/chapter-9?lang=en\">Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual<\/a>&nbsp;that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recommended amendments include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>General rules for determining average earnings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More information on exceptions to the general rules.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Composition of average earning calculations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average earnings determination on the reopened claim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC \u2013 The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 28. If you prefer to send your feedback to SafeCare BC for our collated submission, please send your feedback to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jderksen@safecarebc.ca\">jderksen@safecarebc.ca<\/a>&nbsp;no later than Friday, June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorkSafeBC is releasing a&nbsp;discussion paper&nbsp;with proposed amendments to the&nbsp;Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual&nbsp;that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation. Recommended amendments include: These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC \u2013 The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,68],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-regulatory"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 18:25:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}