mnsedbywotkmdpï¬mdg better service to workers and employers, _ pays benefits for injuries wodtphunmfcphlh The new legislation will * restore the financial viabilâ€" ity of the system through meaâ€" sures that ensure all employers pay their fair share; modify indexation of benefits except for the most vulnerable (the 100 per cent disabled and surâ€" vivors of deceased workers) who will continue to receive full inflation protection; and reduce benefit levels to 85 per cent of preâ€"injury net average earnings for workers injured after July 1, 1997, consistent with trends in other provinces such New Brunswick: Witmer introduced the new act in the Ontario legislature Tuesday afternoon. The new act marks the first time a new workers‘ compensation act has been introduced in Ontario since 1914 $10.7 bithon unfunded habil ity by the year 2014. new workers compensation act will retire the system‘s Ontario Labour Minister and Waterioo North MPP Elizâ€" abeth Witmer says Ontario‘s * refocus the system as a Once a person enters a polling station, a poll worker will sull scratch the person‘s name off the voters‘ list. A poll worker will then give a person a ballot in a secrecy folder and the person will go behind a City election coordinator, Susan Greatrix, described after Monday night‘s meeting how a person will vote using the new tabulating machines. Ayers said the committee looked at possibly renting the machines but found purchas ing the units outright was actuâ€" ally cheaper ness Records Corporation units. The BRC units are reconâ€" ditioned units but are warâ€" ranted as new. The commuttee looked at five different options involving two different companies before agreeimg to purchase the Busiâ€" Results under a ‘central count system could take until 11 p.m. overhaul of WCB 6 monts siz s ’23'%- We cer will enter a secret code into the machine and the machine When the polls close at 8 p.m., the deputy returning offiâ€" machine, the ballot will be immediately counted, and the voter can go home. deputy returning officer will then feed the ballot into the «* "(Continubd hom page 1) ~310988; V Wl 0. . > on Wrapa suto io /2i §‘*» y 4 :azyff;;"" LE Ti i NYA ‘s side air bag are calculated a paper copy of the results) and are taken to city hall where the memory packs are quickly downloaded into another tabuâ€" lator and the total final results 2t Memory packs are removed will no longer accept ballots. _ Originally approximately 7 +4 sutomatic EE"?'!!:M 5’ ’wétf:;: P nnm EMAE ol ae. _‘ 0 e the proposed purchase, tom im staffing and i approximately $50,000 will be : costs on elecii returned to the city‘s coffers for | said. hon daf $157,000 had been earmarked The machines ;i mh#lmmi¥“ï¬hhm; to cither purchase or rent an &tdm. automated vote tabulating sysâ€" ~and sav m_md.M:Jd "mbilg,o?o= i y°C delivered which raised for UNICEF of food; sent for the Food involved in a activities that