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ONIWG: The WSIB’s annual indexing rate / cost-of-living adjustment rip-off for 2022

May 10, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Annual indexing is supposed to protect injured workers against the effects of inflation over time by gradually increasing injured workers’ wage-loss benefits. Presentation to the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers’ Tuesday meeting discusses the purpose, the law and impact of WSIB’s…

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ONIWG: WSIB short-changes injured workers with 2022 cost-of-living adjustment

April 12, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) calls on Premier Ford to to meet with ONIWG and to instruct the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to properly apply the law and WSIB policy in determining the annual cost-of-living adjustment……

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IWC submission re draft occupational disease framework

February 28, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission urges that the WSIB respect Meredith’s concept that occupational disease should be put on “the same footing” as workplace accidents, and that the WSIB Policy framework should adopt the same evidentiary standard of “Significant contributing factor” in order to bring some…

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IWC submission to the pre-budget consultation

January 25, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission draws the Committee’s attention to the significant revenue leakage from the provincial coffers caused by Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claim suppression. In particular this revenue leakage impacts health care and social assistance, budget areas already stressed by the COVID-19…

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IWC Submission re Naloxone in the Workplace Consultation

January 14, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC welcomes and supports efforts to increase workplace safety, including access to naloxone to reduce the risk of deaths caused by opioid overdoses. The Clinic also urges that people who use opioids are not demonized in this review – many workers have…

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Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings

January 10, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Virtual presentation to the Parliamentary Committee by Steve Mantis focuses on 3 issues: the growing gap of income inequality in Ontario (and Canada); the negative impact that is having on our democratic society that includes the reduction in public services; to alert…

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IWC Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs re Schedule 9, Bill 43 (deeming)

November 30, 2021 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission focuses on the unintended consequences that the proposed minimum wage increase included in Schedule 9 in Bill 43 will have on injured workers as a result of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming“/”determining”. Three proposals for amendments to the Bill…

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Experiences, impacts and service needs of injured workers in the WSIB process – research brief

November 30, 2021 by

The purpose of this research, led by Dr Rebecca Scharfe and funded by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, was to describe the experiences and mental health needs of injured and ill Northwestern Ontario workers in the WSIB process, in order to promote…

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IWC submission to Standing Committee on Bill 27

November 17, 2021 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

The submission proposes legislative amendments to Schedule 6 of Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021, on the WSIB’s distribution of ‘surplus’ funds. Recommendations focus on the need to 1) incorporate in the formula for determining a surplus position an assessment…

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Letter to WSIB: Impact of minimum wage increase on injured workers’ benefits

November 10, 2021 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Letter to WSIB President urges a fair approach to the review of LOE benefits so that minimum wage increases are not used to reduce the benefits of unemployed injured workers who have been “deemed“.…

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