Worker Information

 

Vocational Return-to-Work Plan

The purpose of a vocational return-to-work plan is to reintegrate a worker into the workforce as closely as possible to their pre-injury level of skills, aptitudes and pre-injury earnings.

A vocational assessment will outline an individual's interests, aptitudes, physical abilities, and skills to determine whether an injured worker requires assistance. A case manager, worker and employer will work together to design a vocational return-to-work plan. A vocational return-to-work plan is developed from the assessment. The plan may involve job searching, work assessments, training-on-the-job, or re-education for the injured worker.

A vocational return-to-work plan is determined on a case-by-case, cost-effective basis. The vocational return-to-work plan focuses on potential employability in the Yukon first, and then in the rest of Canada.

The following objectives are ranked in order of priority:

1. Return to the same work with the same employer;
2. Return to similar or comparable work with the same employer;
3. Return to different, but suitable work with the same employer;
4. Return to similar or comparable work with a different employer;
5. Return to different, but suitable work with a different employer;
6. New skills training-on-the-job;
7. Re-education and/or self-employment.

Upgrading of existing skills may be considered.

The vocational return-to-work plan is terminated when the goals of the plan have been achieved and the worker is clearly employable, when the worker fails to co-operate with the vocational return-to-work plan, or when the worker is not going to benefit from continued vocational recovery.