Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba
investigations & monitoring
fippa
Summary
Provisions considered: 17(1), 17(2)(d), 23(1)(a).
An individual requested access to his personal information from the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba (WCB). In the WCB’s initial access decision, it refused access in part. During the course of our investigation, the WCB reconsidered its access decision on its own accord, and provided the complainant with additional information. Our office reviewed the information that continued to be withheld and determined that information in one record did not appear to fall under the provision cited by the WCB. The WCB agreed and provided the record to the complainant. Our office found that exceptions related to personal information about a third party and advice to a public body applied to the information that continued to be withheld by the WCB. The complaint was partly supported.
Case 2018-0292