Workers Compensation Board CEO leaves job

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The Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba’s top executive has left the job.

The organization, which promotes safe workplaces and handles workplace injury compensation claims, said that president and CEO Richard Deacon left the job on Friday after three years in the lead role.

It was not immediately clear why exactly Deacon left the role. Board chair Michael Werier said in a statement that the organization wants to move in a “different leadership direction.”

The WCB’s vice president of legal, compliance and corporate services, Catherine Skinner, has been appointed acting boss while the organization searches for a permanent CEO.