{"id":600990,"date":"2026-04-13T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:33:54","slug":"piccini-touts-new-wsib-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600990\/","title":{"rendered":"Piccini touts new WSIB measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/david-piccini.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Piccini touts new WSIB measures\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ontario is planning to extend workplace safety and insurance coverage to health-care and support workers in privately-run retirement homes and group homes.<\/p>\n<p>Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP and Labour Minister and David Piccini says the new legislative measure will be part of a broader set of changes to labour rules.<\/p>\n<p>He says frontline care workers deserve to know they will be protected if something goes wrong on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The government says privately-operated residential care facilities such as retirement homes and group homes, including foster homes, are currently not subject to mandatory coverage under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.<\/p>\n<p>The government says extending Workplace Safety and Insurance Board coverage to those approximately 29,000 workers would ensure they are protected if they are injured or become ill on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Staff that could be affected includes nurses, personal support workers and resident care workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ontario is planning to extend workplace safety and insurance coverage to health-care and support workers in privately-run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,84,392,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-600990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-bancroft","9":"tag-brighton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pec","16":"tag-picton","17":"tag-prince-edward-county","18":"tag-quinte","19":"tag-quinte-news","20":"tag-quinte-west","21":"tag-trenton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}