TORONTO - Ontario's Workplace Safety and
Insurance Board has operated a "slush fund" for years without proper
oversight to make sure it's getting value for money, the opposition
Progressive Conservatives charged Tuesday.
The WSIB gave the Ontario Federation of
Labour $12.3 million over 10 years to train workers and help prevent
accidents, but a 2014 audit found the grant program's "link to
prevention is weak" and it should be shut down, said PC labour critic
Randy Hillier.
"There has never been any oversight of this
fund whatsoever, no applications, no reporting and zero value for
money," Hillier told the legislature. "KPMG has told you that this
program is worthless. It's just a slush fund for the OFL, and it's
political pressure on your ministry that is keeping that slush fund
going."
Documents obtained under freedom of
information show some of the grant money was spent on car allowances,
gym memberships and $44,000 for staff training sessions at the Bayview
Wildwood resort in Muskoka, added Hillier.
"That's where the money is going," he said. "It's not going to help injured workers." .........
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