ontario regulation 39/18

made under the

Courts of Justice Act

Made: February 21, 2018
Filed: February 23, 2018
Published on e-Laws: February 23, 2018
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: March 10, 2018

Amending O. Reg. 485/16

(SALARY AND BENEFITS OF CASE MANAGEMENT MASTERS)

1. (1) The Table to subsection 2 (1) of Ontario Regulation 485/16 is amended by striking out the last row and substituting the following:

 

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017	$251,300
April 1 in a year after 2016 to March 31 of the following year	The annual salary for the previous period, adjusted in accordance with subsection (2).

 

(2) Subsection 2 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “2015” in the portion before paragraph 1 and substituting “2016”.

2. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 6 of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

1. On and after January 1, 2017 and before January 1, 2018,

i. 2 11/12 days per month during the first five years of continuous service, and

ii. 3 1/3 days per month after five years of continuous service.

2.   On and after January 1, 2018, 3 1/3 days per month.

3. (1) Subsection 7 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out the portion before paragraph 1 and substituting the following:

(2) Case management masters shall receive the benefits provided under the following provisions of the Compensation Directive to SMG (Senior Management Group) employees, subject to the terms and conditions that apply under those provisions, as those provisions are modified by subsection (3):

. . . . .

(2) Paragraph 1 of subsection 7 (3) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “an employee classified by the Treasury Board Secretariat as SMG (Senior Management Group)” and substituting “an SMG (Senior Management Group) employee”.

(3) Paragraph 8 of subsection 7 (3) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

7.1 Despite subsection 53 (2), for the purposes of section 53, “total disability” means the continuous inability, as the result of illness or injury, to perform the principal duties of a case management master, and “totally disabled” has a corresponding meaning.

8. In section 55, as remade by subsection 3 (2) of Appendix A,

i. a reference to January 1, 2015 shall be read as a reference to January 1, 2017, and

ii. despite clause (1) (d) of that section, the reimbursement of charges incurred on and after January 1, 2017 for the services of a psychologist, including of the holder of a Master of Social Work, is up to $40 per half-hour.

(4) Subsection 7 (4) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “employees classified by the Treasury Board Secretariat as SMG (Senior Management Group)” and substituting “SMG (Senior Management Group) employees”.

4. (1) The definition of “eligible person” in subsection 8 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“eligible person” means any of the following persons:

1. A person who is receiving a pension and whose last contribution to a fund from which the pension is paid, or the last contribution made on his or her behalf to a fund from which the pension is paid, was made while the person was holding the office of case management master, if,

i. the person,

A. has at least 10 years of credit in the pension plan, or

B. contributed or had contributions made on his or her behalf to a fund from which the pension is paid in respect of continuous service of at least 10 years, and has credit in the pension plan for some part of each of those 10 years; and

ii. in the case of a person who was appointed as a case management master on or after January 1, 2017, the person begins receiving an immediate unreduced pension upon retiring as a case management master.

2. A person who dies while holding the office of case management master, if, as of the date of the person’s death, he or she met the requirements of subparagraph 1 i and was eligible to retire to an immediate unreduced pension; (“personne admissible”)

(2) Section 8 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) A person who retired as a case management master on or after January 1, 2017 and before February 23, 2018 and who, on retirement, met the requirements of subparagraph 1 i of the definition of “eligible person” in subsection (1) is an eligible person for the purposes of this section.

Commencement

5. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.