Presumptive Disability Law in Nunavut
CODE PART:
CONSOLIDATION OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT
DESCRIPTION:
Definitions
14.1.
In this section, “firefighter” means a worker who is engaged in fighting fires as a full-time, part-time or volunteer member of a fire department, and does not exclusively fight forest fires; (pompier)”listed disease” means any of the following diseases:
cardiac arrest within 24 hours after attendance at an emergency response,
multiple myeloma,
primary leukemia,
primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
primary site brain cancer,
primary site colo-rectal cancer,
primary site lung cancer,
primary site prostate cancer,
primary site skin cancer,
primary site testicular cancer.
primary site bladder cancer
primary site breast cancer
primary site esophageal cancer
primary site kidney cancer
primary site ureter cancer (maladie inscrite)
Presumption for firefighters: Despite section 14 and subject to subsection (3), a listed disease is presumed
to have arisen out of a worker’s employment and to have occurred during the course of
that employment if
the worker is disabled by the listed disease; and
the worker is or has been a firefighter for the minimum period prescribed in the regulations.
Smokers: Where the listed disease is primary site lung cancer, the presumption referred
to in subsection (2) does not apply unless the worker has been a non-smoker before the
date of the disability for the minimum period prescribed in the regulations.
S.Nu 2010,c.20,s.3.