Yachnin Maryth
IAVGO Community Legal Clinic, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
New Solut. 2025 May;35(1):96-105. doi: 10.1177/10482911241311200. Epub 2025 Jan 23.
This article explores the challenges facing injured migrant farm workers in the workers compensation system in Canada's province of Ontario, with a focus on their fight for return to work justice. Told from the perspective of one of the lawyers who represented the workers, it highlights a recent victory achieved by 4 workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in defending their rights to workers' compensation support. The workers' compensation tribunal decided that the workers' compensation board must evaluate these workers ability to return to work, access retraining, and receive compensation based on their labor markets in Jamaica-instead of based on fictional job prospects in Ontario. The tribunal also called out the need to consider systemic anti-Black racism in workers' compensation law and policy. The article analyzes how this legal victory could reshape workers compensation policy in Ontario for injured migrant farm workers. It also discusses the implications of the win for injured workers in other temporary work programs and precarious employment sectors.
本文探讨了加拿大安大略省受伤的流动农场工人在工人赔偿制度中面临的挑战，重点关注他们为争取重返工作岗位的公正待遇而进行的斗争。从代表这些工人的一名律师的视角讲述，它突出了季节性农业工人计划中的4名工人在捍卫其获得工人赔偿支持权利方面最近取得的胜利。工人赔偿法庭裁定，工人赔偿委员会必须根据这些工人在牙买加的劳动力市场来评估他们重返工作岗位的能力、获得再培训的机会以及获得赔偿的资格，而不是基于安大略省虚构的就业前景。法庭还指出，有必要在工人赔偿法律和政策中考虑系统性的反黑人种族主义。本文分析了这一法律胜利如何可能重塑安大略省针对受伤流动农场工人的工人赔偿政策。它还讨论了这一胜利对其他临时工作计划和不稳定就业部门中受伤工人的影响。
