Six years after a devastating injury on an Ontario farm, Leroy Thomas says he's finally feeling hopeful about the future. The former seasonal worker from Jamaica dislocated his spine while working at a Simcoe, Ont.
Six years after a devastating injury on an Ontario farm, Leroy Thomas says he's finally feeling hopeful about the future.
"I was devastated, I've faced hungry times, it's been the roughest time of my life. But now I feel a bit better," the 48-year-old said in a phone interview from Jamaica.When asked about the tribunal ruling delivered this month, Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board said it will be conducting a review of how claims for people in the federal Seasonal Agricultural Worker program are handled.
Thomas said he was also unable to keep working as a barber in Jamaica, a job he held for years while not farming in Ontario. It noted that the loss-of-earnings provisions of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act assumed that after three months, all workers could return to work either in Ontario or their home country, without taking into account workers' actual circumstances, such as whether they had recovered from their injury, were capable of working or finding a job.
"This was a decision we made that takes the latest decision into account and our determination to treat people with humanity and respect, taking into account the realities of their local labour markets," spokesperson Christine Arnott wrote in a statement.
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