Injured workers need your help to force the system to work as it should!

Commission employees are governed by law!

This means when an injured worker has decisions made that are not based on facts provided to the commission, those employees broke a law!

When an employee breaks a law, the chain of command begins to take legal action towards that employee!

Human Resources would be first.

Then CEO.

Then Minister.

My husband had two recurrences.  Aug 5, 2019 and May 10, 2023

The commission has verbally said a recurrence happened on Sept 27, 2022.

We have written proof of them then saying it was Oct 4, 2022.

Then when we log in online it says Recurrence on Jan 24, 2023!

Then on the medical review of Aug 1, 2023 they found medical proof of an actual recurrence on May 10, 2023.

This is ENOUGH proof for Sonya Stanford to charge Melissa Burry, Natasha Pennell, Charmaine Janes, Colleen Meadus and Director of Entitlement and Extended Claims.

By the way, the injured worker "claims" nothing after the injury is proven compensable!  The use of the word "claim" is incorrect and the commission should then be using the word case or file.

There is no such thing as an extended "claim".  This is a permanent injury or permanent functional impairment!   

Definition of "Claim":  state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

Dustin provided the commission with a change in his ability to work as many hours as he had access to prior to the injury AND prior to most recent MRI results.  This change also includes no overtime and no future possibility to get a second job to supplement income in times of financial hardship.  The commission was suppose to estimate the loss of earning capacity as a result of his injury, even before that time, but especially at that time.

The "claim" (state something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof) was made by the employees of the commission that a recurrence had happened.  It is a "claim" by the commission because no evidence or proof of such an event was provided!

The commission is incompetent in many ways.  The incorrect use of terminology is unbelievably high in those offices!  Lost time was being used instead of loss of earnings as well.  While there is an actual law being broken in Dustin's case, a competent Human Resources department would be ensuring the employees begin applying the proper terminology.

It does not shock me in the least that they so easily have convinced themselves they are competent.  Because everything is a "claim" to them!  Well, in my husband's case NOTHING was claimed and needed to be proven.  He slipped on a Coast Guard ship with witnesses.  He immediately had to leave his duties and could not bare weight.  When he had his recurrence on Aug 5, 2019, the MRI proved he had suffered an ACL injury and no other damage was showing in his knee.  Proof was ALWAYS provided from Dustin and nothing was "claimed".  Dustin went to his medical team and always had medical proof to provide to match loss of earnings.  I will repeat that Melissa Burry, Natasha Pennell, Charmaine Janes began the claim of a recurrence because they were never provided with any medical proof for them to have made that decision.  Colleen Meadus continued to claim things for his file and his entitlement based on her assumptions using such terms as "regular schedule" which does not apply in any capacity of the decision making process.  The decisions she was making needed to use the terms "loss of earnings" and "recovered loss of earnings".  She then needed to have a section of Dustin's file dedicated to providing her with quick access to the earnings Dustin has lost to compare to the earnings he was recovering.  The commission does not have this and in order to make competent decisions in a fast and effective manner, an immediate change to incorporate this into their reporting system needs to be top priority!  It would need to be updated with every change in earnings that happens after the injury is reported and medical evidence is provided.  

I have zero tolerance for such incompetency.  And I am asking for support to get competency of the law, competency of what is and is not medical proof, and competency in the correct use of the english language!! 

Please help share this and get the word out there!  I could be advocating for you or your loved one as we never know when a workplace injury will happen!

God bless you all!

Charlene Blake