WCB Pensions
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST This is a virtual event
** Zoom Link will be forwarded 1-2 days prior to the workshop **
This three-hour class looks at the Workers’ Compensation pension system. There are two kinds of WCB pensions: permanent functional impairment (PFI) and loss of earnings (LOE). How does the WCB calculate what, and how much, an injured worker is entitled to? Can a worker ask for a lump sum payout? Is CPP Disability clawed back? Are pensions indexed to the cost-of-living? This class will give you an overview on the system.
Facilitators: Sarah O’Leary, O’Leary Law and Lauren Chancellor, GKS Law
Sarah O’Leary was called to the bar in 1981 and has primarily been practicing Workers’ Compensation and disability-related law for over 30 years. She has been a workers’ advisor, a Vice-Chair at the Appeal Division, a staff lawyer at a major health care union, and practiced for 16 years at Rush Crane Guenther and Harrison O’Leary LLP. She is currently in private practice in Vancouver. Sarah has been teaching workers’ compensation advocacy to labour unions for over three decades.
Lauren Chancellor was called to the bar in 2022. She has appeared in front of administrative tribunals including WorkSafeBC’s Review Division and Worker’s Compensation Appeal Tribunal, and trial level courts in British Columbia. Lauren is in private practice at GKS Law Firm, where she represents a diverse range of injured workers in workers’ compensation and other administrative matters, including Canada Pension Plan disability appeals, College of Physicians complaints, and privacy and access complaints to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC.