It's October 2023 and a Moroccan friend asks you if Covid-19 is considered an occupational disease...

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It's October 2023 and a Moroccan friend asks you if Covid-19 is considered an occupational disease in Quebec. At the time you do not have a specific answer to offer him but you tell him that you will do a search on this subject. To do this, consult the LATMP (Law on Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases). You are doing personal research and are able to answer the three questions he left you. a) In Quebec, can Covid-19 be considered an occupational disease within the meaning of the LATMP Act and the Act modernizing the occupational health and safety Act 59? According to your answer, you say why based on the relevant sections of the act and the following articles of the law. b) Could it be classified in the Occupational Disease Regulations as a presumptive disease? According to your answer say why. LATMP act 29. A worker is presumed to have an occupational disease if the worker has a prescribed disease and, on the day the worker is diagnosed with the prescribed disease, the worker meets the specific conditions prescribed by the regulations. LATMP act 30. A worker who is not presumed to have an occupational disease under section 29 is considered to have an occupational disease: (1) where the employee suffers from an illness contracted by or on the job that is not the result of an accident at work, or an injury or illness caused by such an accident. (2) when he demonstrates to the Commission that his illness is characteristic of work he has carried out or that it is directly related to the particular risks of that work. LATMP act 2 "occupational disease" means an illness contracted by or in connection with work that is characteristic of that work or directly related to the particular risks of that work. It's October 2023 and a Moroccan friend asks you if Covid-19 is considered an occupational disease in Quebec. At the time you do not have a specific answer to offer him but you tell him that you will do a search on this subject. To do this, consult the LATMP (Law on Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases). You are doing personal research and are able to answer the three questions he left you. a) In Quebec, can Covid-19 be considered an occupational disease within the meaning of the LATMP Act and the Act modernizing the occupational health and safety Act 59? According to your answer, you say why based on the relevant sections of the act and the following articles of the law. b) Could it be classified in the Occupational Disease Regulations as a presumptive disease? According to your answer say why. LATMP act 29. A worker is presumed to have an occupational disease if the worker has a prescribed disease and, on the day the worker is diagnosed with the prescribed disease, the worker meets the specific conditions prescribed by the regulations. LATMP act 30. A worker who is not presumed to have an occupational disease under section 29 is considered to have an occupational disease: (1) where the employee suffers from an illness contracted by or on the job that is not the result of an accident at work, or an injury or illness caused by such an accident. (2) when he demonstrates to the Commission that his illness is characteristic of work he has carried out or that it is directly related to the particular risks of that work. LATMP act 2 "occupational disease" means an illness contracted by or in connection with work that is characteristic of that work or directly related to the particular risks of that work.

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