Publications

Selected documents from Ontario's injured workers and their advocates

Policy & law reform submissions
Fact sheets & backgrounders
News releases
Articles, conference papers, reports
Injured Workers History Project bulletins

Policy & law reform submissions

Oral and written presentations and briefs on workers' compensation policy and legislation

2012

Letter to Premier McGuinty re KPMG Value for Money Audit (January 31, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
Letter to Premier McGuinty on experience rating (January 27, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups [pdf]
Submission on the KPMG value for money audit (January 26, 2012) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]

2011

Response to the KPMG report on WSIB adjudication (December 13, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants [pdf]
Letter to the Premier re the KPMG report on WSIB adjudication (November 9, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]
Commentary on the WSIB "Framework for policy development and renewal" (September 19, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
Third submission to the WSIB Funding Review (August 31, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
Supplementary submission to the WSIB Funding Review (August 31, 2011) ⁄ ONIWG [pdf]
Submission to Ontario's Social Assistance Review (August 9, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
Second submission to the WSIB Funding Review (June 15, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
Follow-up of the submission to the Funding Review (June 13, 2011) ⁄ Women of Inspiration [pdf]
Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics Workers Compensation Network [pdf]
Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights [pdf] - accompanied by the many, many letters that have been sent, over the years, on cost of living, experience rating, funding and other issues
Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 27, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants CLC [pdf]
Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 18, 2011) ⁄ Hamilton Community Legal Clinic [pdf]
Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 13, 2011) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group [pdf]
Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 13, 2011) ⁄ IAVGO CLC [pdf]
Initial submissions to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 7, 2011) ⁄ Toronto Workers' Health and Safety Legal Clinic [pdf]
Submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2011) ⁄ Experience Rating Working Group[pdf]
Joint submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2010) ⁄ OCEU & CUPE Ontario [pdf]
Preliminary submission to the WSIB Funding Review (Apr. 5, 2011) ⁄ ONIWG [pdf]
Submissions to the WSIB Interim Work Reintegration Policy Consultation (Feb. 15, 2011) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants Community Legal Clinic. [pdf]
Letter to the Board - Our response to Work Reintegration policy (Feb. 10, 2011) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]

2010

Submission on Bill 135 (Sch. 21 - amendments to workers' compensation Act) to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs (Dec. 2, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Presentations on Bill 135 to the Standing Committee (Dec. 2, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario (IAVGO) & IWC [pdf]
Submission [re CPP] to the Ministry of Finance consultation on retirement income security (Nov. 30, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants [pdf]
Letter [re Funding Review] to David Marshall, WCB/WSIB President (Nov. 26, 2010) [pdf] re his response (Oct. 27) to letter of Oct.14 [pdf] ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers Group [pdf]
[Letter to Minister of Labour] on the Funding Review mandate and process (Oct. 19, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
[Letter to the WSIB/WCB President on the Funding Review] (Oct 15, 2010) ⁄ Women of Inspiration Injured Workers Group [pdf]
[Brief] re: WSIB Work Reintegration Program (Sep. 27, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network [pdf]
[Brief to the Board] re: new Work Reintegration Program (Sep. 20, 2010) ⁄ Toronto Injured Workers’ Advocacy Group (TIWAG) [pdf]
Submission on the Auditor General's 2009 report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (June 2, 2010) ⁄ Hamilton Community Legal Clinic [pdf]
Submission on the Auditor General's report (June 1, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Submission on the Auditor General's report (June 1, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
Letter (with analysis) on the Auditor General's report to the Standing Committee (May 28, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers Speakers School [pdf]
Letter of concern on the Auditor General's report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Apr. 20, 2010) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)[pdf]
Commentary on the new WSIB "Narcotics Strategy" (Mar. 18, 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Letter to the Board on the narcotics strategy (March 16, 2010) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group [pdf]

2009

Response to the KPMG Value for Money Audit of the Appeal System report (June 26, 2009) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Submission on Bill 152, Poverty Reduction Act, to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Apr. 21, 2009) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Submission on Bill 152 (Apr. 20, 2009) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]

2008

Submission on Bill 119 [re amendments in coverage under workers' compensation Act] to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Nov. 17, 2008) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Pre-budget presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs (Jan. 24, 2008) ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group [pdf]

2007

Submission regarding Bill 187 July 2007 interim policies - Deeming adds insults to injury (Nov. 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
IWC response to the "WCB/WSIB Consultation on Accreditation for Ontario Workplaces" (May 30, 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Presentations on Bill 187 to the Standing Committee (Apr. 26, 2007) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC), Toronto Workers' Health & Safety Legal Clinic [pdf]
Submission on Bill 187 to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 19, 2007) ⁄ Bright Lights Injured Workers [pdf]
Submission on Bill 187 [deeming] to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 18, 2007) ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) [pdf]
Submission on Bill 187 to the Minister of Labour (Apr. 5, 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Letter to the Minister of Labour re Bill 187 [on the impact of minimum wage on deemed wages] (Mar. 29, 2007) ⁄ IWC Chair, Peter Bird [pdf]
WSIB/WCB Consultation on Early and Safe Return to Work policies [second] : submissions (Feb. 2007) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]

2006

Submission on WSIB/WCB Clothing Allowance Policy Changes [retroactivity] (Sep. 11, 2006) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]
Submission to the [first]WSIB/WCB Consultation on Early and Safe Return to Work policies (Jan. 2006) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants (IWC) [pdf]

Fact sheets & backgrounders

ONIWG guide to the KPMG audit report, "KPMG compensation" for dummies (Dec. 2011)
Fact sheet : Cost of living inflation adjustment to benefits (Nov. 2010)
Fact sheet : Deeming is demeaning! (Nov. 2010)
Fact sheet : Experience rating (Nov. 2010)
Fact sheet : Universal workers' compensation coverage (Nov. 2010)
Backgrounder : Workers' compensation finances : crisis or smokescreen? (Nov. 2010) ⁄ Injured Workers' Consultants
Who Paid for the WCB's 'Unfunded Liability' in the Harris years? (2010)
On the record : why are injured workers are expecting compensation cuts? (Jun. 2010)
IWC commentary on the new WSIB Narcotics Strategy(Mar. 18, 2010)
The injured worker community view of the unfunded liability issue (Aug. 2005)

Articles, conference papers, reports

"Injured Workers & Poverty Survey 2010/2011 - summary results" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (2011)
"WSIB: The Big Ship" ⁄ Terri Aversa (OPSEU) - personal stories of Injured Workers Speaker School graduates (Mar. 29, 2011)
"Presentation to the Health & Safety and WCB Conference of the Joint Ontario Federation of Labour and Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups" [on experience rating and other current issues] ⁄ Terence G. Ison (Nov. 26, 2010)
"Age-Based Discrimination in Ontario's Workers' Compensation Laws: 'Promises to keep, and miles to go before we sleep…' " ⁄ John McKinnon (IWC) - paper presented to the Canadian Conference on Elder Law, Toronto (Oct. 29, 2010)
"WSIB has plenty of reserves" [Letter to the editor] Aug. 23, 2009]
"Injured workers and poverty survey report: Impacts of workplace injury - is this what Justice Meredith envisioned? A study of the economic and social impacts of workplace injury and illness" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, Bonnie Heath (Jun. 2009)
Key findings [pdf] ¦ Pre-and post-injury income [chart] ¦ Post-injury sources of income [chart]
"Experience rating: prevention of injuries or managing injured workers?" ⁄ Terri Aversa (OPSEU)(Apr. 6, 2009)
Letters to the editor on experience rating, Apr. 8, 2008: IWC ‌ IAVGO
"Poverty in Motion" ⁄ Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group (Feb. 2008)
Injured Workers Annual report 2007-2008 ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (2008)
"The Perils of experience rating: Exposed!" ⁄ Ontario Federation of Labour (Oct. 5, 2007)
"Making the system better: Injured workers speak out..." ⁄ Injured Worker Participatory Research Project (2001)
"The 1999 Injured Workers' report on workers' compensation in Ontario" ⁄ Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (1999)
"Squeezing the worker: how experience rating works." ⁄ Marion Endicott (IWC). IAVGO Reporting Service v. 11, no.1 (Sep. 1996): 6-9

News releases

Nov. 16, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ Ontario's Injured Worker Community Stands in Solidarity with the Movement Against "Austerity" Measures Proposed by KPMG [pdf]
Sept. 28, 2011:ONIWG ⁄ Letter to the Board "Request that WSIB sever its lnks with discredited KPMG [pdf]
Sept. 23, 2011:ONIWG ⁄ Letter to the 3 Ontario party leaders "re injured workers' election issues"[pdf]
July 27, 2011: IWC ⁄ "Workers' Compensation Board agrees to hear hunger striker" [pdf]
June 15, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Cuts on the backs of injured workers" [pdf]
May 31, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Overnight vigil (May 31) and Injured Workers' Day rally (June 1) at Queen's Park" [pdf]
January 14, 2011: ONIWG ⁄ "Broken promise to injured workers? " [pdf]
Dec. 8, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured workers' bake sale against cuts to compensation" [pdf] ¦ [Rally flyer]
Nov. 10, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Open letter : Who cares about injured workers today?" [pdf]
Oct. 4, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "New WSIB funding review - are Ontario's injured workers on the chopping block again?" [pdf] ¦ Vigil leaflet
June 1st, 2010: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day" [pdf] ¦ [Flyer]
June 1st, 2009: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day rally & vigil" [pdf] ¦ [Flyer]
June 1st, 2009: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured worker poverty survey" [pdf]
Dec. 11, 2007: ONIWG/TIWAG/IAVGO ⁄ "16th Annual Injured Worker Christmas Demo" [Flyer]
Oct. 2, 2007: ONIWG / OFL ⁄ "Injured workers betrayed by another Liberal broken promise - rally on deeming" [[pdf]]
May 28, 2007: ONIWG ⁄ "Injured Workers' Day - Minister of Labour commits to abolishing phantom jobs for injured workers - will the WSIB do it?"[ [pdf]
Mar. 19, 2007: ONIWG ⁄ "Vigil at Queen's Park - injured workers want an end to poverty" [pdf]
Nov. 20, 2006: ONIWG / OFL ⁄ "Injured workers demand McGuinty live up to his promise to his promise to protect worker benefits from inflation" [pdf]
Sep. 23, 2006: IWC ⁄ "Remembering Carol McGregor - champion of injured workers' rights and dear colleague" [pdf]

Injured Workers History Project bulletins

1 - Injured Workers' Day (origins of June 1st commemoration)
2 - A merry protest (a Dickensian tale of ongoing struggle for justice)
3 - No more cap in hand (begging(?) for cost of living protection)
4 - Deeming - it's just wrong!
5 - Back to the future (political response to the dual award system & deeming)
6 - Experience? Rating? (the program's origins and problems)
7 - Miracle at 200 Front Street : a play (what a fair system looks like)
8 - "The Historic Compromise" (why a no-fault system benefits workers, employers & the public)
9 - Meredith's Principles (origins and philosophy behind our workers' compensation system)
10 - The Politics of workers' Compensation (renewed assault on injured workers?)
11 - Justice : speedily and humanely rendered (the Funding review and Meredith principles)