A website contest…A trade gives his employee back to Ontario
Robert Koci
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Hey Wade! I love your email address (fedup @hotmail.com), but come on man…if you had employees last year you were supposed to have WSIB then too. What you ought to be fed up about is the fact that you can’t collect it if you need it, and it costs twice as much as private insurance and only covers you at work. Your new email address might be igiveup@hotmail.com after Canadian Contractor reports what is really happening with CPP.
Robert– If more builders did what your contractor example did, the govt may get the message. Sad to see–but good to see at the same time.
Rogers Outrank? I know you guys need advertisers and vetting them is not easy when it is a new venture with such slick marketing– but please be careful. By shilling for them you may lose some loyal followers.
The trouble is that SEO is a fluid and fast moving science that changes every couple of weeks. A large company working from templates and scripts simply cannot keep up with actual needs in the marketplace.
It wouldn’t break my heart if you moderated this comment–so long as Robert Reads it.
Keep up the great work you guys.
There’s more than one way to look at this issue. While I agree that most of our local government’s across this country are doing a very poor job across the board (spending far more than they should, lack of enforcement etc.), when it comes to WSIB (WCB in Alberta) this could be considered a cost of doing business. I typically maintain that a competitor without this coverage of expense is an unfair competitor to me. If it is legal and acceptable to work without this coverage, then I submit that a communications program needs to be in place to educate the consumer and employees of the additional risk they are exposed to when working with a business without this coverage. In absence of this institution (WSIB/WCB) legal costs and settlements spiral out of control. This is the history that brought these into existence. I share the concern with others in how much these programs cost, and how the coverage is applied and supplied, but overall I’m pleased that a program exists that protects all parties involved related to job site injuries or death. Certainly this and other quasi government programs need to be put under the microscope and AUDITED, but until that happens, I’m okay to add it to my charge-out rate and explain the burden to my customers. If my competitors do likewise, the consuming public can join us in our displeasure with the cost and the way the benefit is provided.