Case: In addition to a general requirement of accommodation under the Human Rights Act, Part V of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 requires accommodation by the employer, up to the point of undue hardship, to the non-essential duties of the worker. In other words, if the worker can return to work yet requires assistance with the non-essential duties or with access to the workplace, the employer has an obligation to accommodate the work or the work site. Refer to textbook chapters 3 and 13, and any other source in order to work on this assignment. Read the following case scenario and prepare a return to work plan: Joes Shirts is an apparel factory. Most workers are apparel workers who cut fabric and other materials and sew it into clothing and related products. Workers at Joes Shirts perform specialized tasks in the production of large numbers of garments that are shipped to retail establishments for sale to the public. Work in apparel production can be physically demanding. Some workers sit for long periods, and others spend many hours on their feet, leaning over tables and operating machinery. New machinery and production techniques have decreased the physical demands upon workers. For example, newer pressing machines are operated by foot pedals or computer controls and do not require much strength to operate them. Textile and apparel workers need good hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity, physical stamina, and the ability to perform repetitive tasks for long periods. Machine operators usually are trained on the job by more experienced employees or by machinery manufacturers representatives. The company also has a shipping department where workers pack the finished products and process them for delivery. Jonathan has been employed with Joes Shirts as a driver and delivery person. While making deliveries he fell and injured himself. He sustained multiple injuries including a fractured ankle and soft tissue damage to his right arm, chest and abdomen. He was taken to the local hospital and was discharged the following day. He was advised to stay off work for one week and as per the company policy, he presented to the supervisor a Functional Ability Assessment Report. The report indicated that his ankle would remain in a cast for three months and eventually heal completely in about nine months. It also indicated that he should not stand on the ankle for three months while using crutches. As a result of his injuries he would be unable to stand, sit and walk for extended time periods. He is expected to improve after a month and his only restriction would be his ankle. You are the HR advisor instructed to develop the return to work program for Jonathan and complete a report for the supervisor. Your report must include a return to work plan and responses to the questions given below. 1) What types of WSIB benefits will the injured worker (Jonathan) be entitled to? Explain why he is entitled to those benefits? 2) List the steps you will take once you have received the Functional Abilities form. Identify the sources, people you would consult in order to develop a RTW plan. 3) Develop a RTW plan that includes: a. Your recommendations for the type of work Jonathan may be able to do on the basis of the information given in the case. b. On the basis of your response to the previous question, explain in detail a minimum of five duties / tasks Jonathan would be required to carry out. You need to conduct research to find out more about the kind of jobs and work done in garment factories. c. Submit a template with your recommended timelines and duties. Your plan should include all details about the accommodation being provided to Jonathan. You may use the WSIB RTW guidelines and job description attached as a resource to prepare your plan. d. Specify what more information you would like to find out about Jonathan's condition to complete your return to work plan? What will you do to obtain this information? Running head: THE INJURED WORKER THE INJURED WORKER Student Name Professor Name Course Name September 30, 2016 1 THE INJURED WORKER 2 The Injured Worker 1. Types of WSIB Benefits It's to your advantage to collaborate in your arrival to wellbeing, and you sheltered come back to work. As a man getting WSIB benefits, it's additionally your duty. Most laborers are useful and agreeable in this matter. Be that as it may, in different situations where a specialist is controlled by the WSIB to be uncooperative, the laborer's advantages might be diminished or suspended after a proceeded with time of non-collaboration. To get WSIB benefits, you should: 1. Collaborate in your recuperation by taking after the treatment and social insurance endorsed by your therapeutic services experts. 2. Have wellbeing examinations as required by the WSIB. The WSIB may need a welfare exam if it helps us settle on a choice as to your case or the off chance that it will help you re-enter the occupation market. Your manager may ask for a wellbeing exam on the off chance that it will give significant new data in your case. 3. Coordinate in your Return to Work program or Work Reintegration program. 4. Report any material change in your conditions to the WSIB. A few case of physical changes is any change to your salary, critical changes in your therapeutic state, or an arrival to work. 5. Give any data that the WSIB needs to evaluate your case[iwh]. The Co-Directors and staff of the join Ontario Committee made a fundamental commitment to the undertaking, connecting the venture organizer to the business and THE INJURED WORKER 3 encouraging access to the majority of the plants that participated. The exploration moreover profited from the exhortation and remarks of a board of trustees of union and administration delegates, which included Jenny Ahn, Nello Corsetti, Steve Kalantzis, Judy Lackner, Harry Mohabir, Alita Morando and Rudi Treviso. 2. The steps of Functional Abilities It is the data that you require about this present laborer's physical abilities and restrictions to arrange come back to work. When you give this structure to the treating wellbeing proficient, guarantee that you have joined the laborers marked agree to the arrival of functional capacities data. This marked assent will either be on your Form 7 or the duplicate of Form 6 that the worker must give you in the wake of documenting correctly with the board. Where accessible, likewise connect a portrayal of the laborer's employment exercises to help the wellbeing proficient in finishing the structure. If you have a structure that is particular to your working environment and have the co-operation of the harmed specialize in giving agree to the arrival of data on your structure, you can utilize your specific structure. The endorsed structure that is accessible from the Board is a non-exclusive structure created to help bosses with comprehensive, useful capacities data and assent by the harmed specialist[atw]. Early contact is a center segment of most incapacity administration projects and aids the injured representative feels associated with his or her work environment. Contact inside the first week or two is a rule. However, the whole period may differ contingent upon the representative's particular circumstance. If the harmed worker feels the contact is an impression of the business' worry about funds and not about his or her wellbeing, this can antagonistically influence the RTW procedure. THE INJURED WORKER 4 3. RTW Plan a. The Type of Work The jolt for this volume was the "retirement" of Jonathan Bradshaw in 2011 following 46 years as an understudy, educator and specialist in the social arrangement at the University of York. Most peruses working in scholarly establishments will perceive the requirement for those altered commas. "Retirement" infrequently implies individuals pressing their sacks and leaving their workplaces to seek after whatever joys they had denied themselves for a considerable length of time. Thus it is that retirement for Jonathan implies that he keeps on educating, inquire about and compose in any case, just on low maintenance premise and admittedly not all that generously compensated[Joa]. b. Duties Keep up certainty discovering not blame seeing when leading the mischance examination and reporting conditions encompassing the damage. Determine the vital obligations of the pre-damage work Be adaptable in giving reasonable option occupations Meet with the RTW Committee, including the harmed representative, to decide RTW desires for the representative as ahead of schedule as functional Cooperate in any RTW Committee-affirmed settlement proposition Ensure the work performed is predictable with the consented to settlement proposition Monitor the returning representative to forestall re-damage or disturbance Regularly plan to line up gatherings with the individuals from the RTW Committee to screen worker's advancement and recuperation Provide backing and support to harmed worker c. Job Description Any peruses who know Jonathan will comprehend that we had an impressive employment in convincing him of the quality and fittingness of this book venture. He is an THE INJURED WORKER 5 exceedingly humble man. Be that as it may, we wore him down and started the assignment of selecting what might, in the long run. Hence you will discover pieces spreading over the 40 years from 1972 to 2011 and covering such assorted points as speculations of social need and watchfulness, vitality destitution, tyke neediness, sole guardians, truant fathers, and kids' prosperity. We say more in regards to the substance of the book in a minute. Initially, in any case, we feel that some clarification of Jonathan's experience may enthusiasm as well as upgrade a comprehension of why he has committed such an extensive amount his proficient life and vitality to the investigation of social strategy and its sway in the world[Roy]. d. Condition to Complete The idea of early mediation has picked up prominence among restorative and social protection experts because any delay in offering restoration has a tendency to urge candidates to concentrate on their inability as opposed to their remaining capacity or potential. Edward E. Palmer has noticed that "time itself is an incapacitating element. Over the long haul, singular inspiration disappears and mental boundaries to coming back to a normal work circumstance raised, pretty much subconsciously."14 In Germany and Sweden, laws and arrangements require that an individual's potential for coming back to work be surveyed soon after the onset of a handicapping condition. In Germany, new help with recovery is a directing role and restoration considered before installment of benefits.15 Sweden's late arrangement accentuation has been on first intercession and arrangement coordination of all gatherings required in recovery. In Germany, doctors of the ailment protection organization guide and allude people for recovery notwithstanding for a developing incapacity. Restoration powers have distributed rules for the treatment and recovery of particular conditions[ny]. THE INJURED WORKER 6 Bibliography atworkcanada. (n.d.). What You Need to Know. Retrieved from atworkcanada: http://atworkcanada.com/images/library/Functional_abilities_form.pdf THE INJURED WORKER 7 et.al, J. S. (n.d.). Improving Return-to-Work Strategies in the United States Disability Programs, with Analysisof Program Practices in Germany and Sweden. Retrieved from ssa: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v62n3/v62n3p41.pdf et.al, R. S. (n.d.). Jonathan Bradshaw on Social Policy Selected Writings 1972-2011. Retrieved from york: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/pdf/JRB.pdf iwh. (n.d.). Ergonomic Handbookfor the Clothing Industry. Retrieved from iwh: https://www.iwh.on.ca/system/files/documents/ergo_handbook_clothing_2001.pdf ny. (n.d.). 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