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Pension Plans On Life-Support
Statement by Kevin Rebeck, President MFL Organized labour is in the middle of a struggle to expand the number of workplaces that have a worthwhile pension plan to make sure that working people have adequate income once they retire, and to preserve existing pension plans in Canada, notably defined benefit plans in both the public
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Brandon Now Has WCB Office
Manitoba’s Workers Compensation Board opened the doors of its Brandon office with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:00 p.m. on February 13, 2012. The Brandon WCB Regional Office is located in the Renaissance Station building, Unit #1, 457 – 9th Street and will provide full service to workers in Brandon and Western Manitoba. Opening a WCB Office
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Injuries Misdirected as Stress Claims
WCB to take action to ensure an injured worker’s claim is investigated. The MFL Compensation committee has recently experienced a problem with access to due process and adjudication. This is based on a misunderstanding within the system that has led to automatic denial of injured workers’ claims. This problem relates to a situation where a
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National Summit on Pensions Needed
– By Ken Georgetti, President Canadian Labour Congress Canada’s finance ministers will meet in Whitehorse in mid-December to talk about pensions. The Canadian Labour Congress and its 3.2 million members welcome this development, but the retirement security crisis is too important to be solved by a few people meeting behind closed doors. Last summer, we at
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MFL Urges Governments To Ignore CFIB Workers Compensation Report
Rejects report giving higher scores for providing lower benefits to injured workers. Governments across Canada should ignore the latest report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) on workers compensation, said Kevin Rebeck, President of the Manitoba Federation of Labour. “The whole point of workers compensation is to provide adequate benefits for injured workers,”