KPMG 2011 Audit on WSIB Adjudication & Claims Administration Program

ONIWG guide to the KPMG report

"KPMG COMPENSATION" FOR DUMMIES [pdf]

Injured workers thought Mike Harris and Bill 99 were "as cruel as it could get." We were promised a "brighter future." Yet WSIB President David Marshall has hired the huge KPMG Company to do more damage. Here is a brief summary of the vision and changes the company for the 1% recommends for injured workers:

  • Making it harder for initial injuries to be recognized.
  • Making it harder to get recurrences recognized (an injury happening the second time or more).
  • Making it harder to get deteriorations recognized (a worsening of the disability).
  • Blaming "old age" and "economic conditions " to deny or cut off benefits.
  • Reducing awards for pain and suffering and delaying the review of cases when the pain and suffering gets worse.
  • Pushing for super-fast, but not safe return to work for the injured. The "time to heal " principle is ignored.
  • Reducing or eliminating vocational rehabilitation and compensation for injured workers (with permanent disability) after a layoff or company shut down.
  • Advocating for fewer appeals for injured workers. Our representatives are demonized.
  • Making "clear " and "final " decisions to destroy "faint hope " for injured workers.
  • Expanding so-called "experience rating, " a system where the WSIB rewards employers for using lawyers or consultants to oppose and harass injured workers.
  • Keeping injured workers on "perpetual probation " by a never-ending review of benefits.
  • Unloading injured workers to other agencies such as CPP and social assistance.
  • Eliminating the help injured workers get to travel to their medical care for the injury.
  • Considering "buyouts " of workers’ benefits in the style of American insurance practice.

If you are concerned,
• speak to your MPP! [click here for the contact details]
• sign the petition online: http://www.change.org/petitions/wsib-reject-the-kpmg-report

Prepared by ONIWG, Dec. 5, 2011

[WSIB's Executive summary of the audit]

Responses to the Audit

Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network Jan. 31, 2012 Letter to Premier McGuinty re KPMG Value for Money Audit

Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network Submission [Jan. 26, 2012] on the KPMG value for money audit

Injured Workers Action for Justice "Renounce the ...KPMG VFMA" [Dec. 19 Letter to the Minister of Labour and WSIB President]

IWC critique "Why the KPMG report on WSIB adjudication is so upsetting" [Dec. 13 response]

OFL's LIWAC response to the Board's 2012-2014 policy agenda based on the KPMG report [Dec. 2 letter to the WSIB Chair]

Ontario Federation of Labour Convention passes emergency resolution no.75 rejecting the KPMG report and its philosophy

Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) stands in solidarity against KPMG's proposed "austerity" measures [Nov. 16 media release]

Bright Lights Group's letter to the Premier (Nov. 9) outlines concerns that the KPMG report will result in injured workers paying for the unfunded liability [pdf]

IAVGO's letter to the Board (Oct. 28) details the flawed analysis and de-facto policymaking [read here]

WSIB and KPMG? Sever the links [ONIWG letter, Sep. 28]

Take action! Sign the petition!

Petition the WSIB to Reject KPMG audit report - Online petition. Or print out a copy of the petition [click here] and and return the original signed copies to Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO), Suite 203 , 489 College Street Toronto, Ontario M6G 1A5
note: because of technical problems with the previous petition, please be sure to sign this new one - adding your voice is easy and effective

Full KPMG report [pdf]