The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an Alberta Court of Appeal
decision addressing the principles of compensation application to
federal government employees covered inMartin v. Alberta (Workers' Compensation
Board), 2014 SCC 25.
The Alberta Court had restored a workers' compensation
Appeals Commission decision that had assessed and denied the
compensation claim of a Parks Canada warden by reference to the
entitlement criteria set out in an Alberta WCB policy. The Court of
Appeal held that the warden's claim for
psychological/psychiatric injury was properly dealt with on the
basis of the Alberta policy.
The Supreme Court agreed, holding that provincial law and policy
determined the entitlement to and rate of compensation for an
employee governed by the federal Government Employees
Compensation Act, except where they were in conflict with the
GECA. This created a system that was efficient and
consistent system and ensured that federal and other workers within
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