Publications Collection

Recent submissions, reports, guides and other documents developed by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, and other groups and advocates from the injured worker community. Additional materials can be accessed through the IWC Library.

InjuredWorkerCast #2: Work & weather

February 13, 2025 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

In Episode 2 of InjuredWorkerCast, a podcast series produced by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, IWC Lawyer Tebasum Durani talks to an injured worker, OFL President Laura Walton, and MPP Peter Tabuns about the dangers that workers who must be outside face…

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The Meredith Act (Workers’ Compensation Act, 2025)

February 10, 2025 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Proposed legislation developed by the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group, along with ONIWG and allies, that is intended to replace Ontario’s current Workplace Safety and Insurance Act and make changes to ensure the fair compensation envisioned by the Meredith…

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TB&DIWSG media release: Meredith Act

February 8, 2025 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Announcement of a media conference in Thunder Bay on the release of the Meredith Act, proposed legislation to replace the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.…

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InjuredWorkerCast #1 : Employer ‘rebates’

December 19, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Episode 1 of the IWC podcast series features a conversation between Tebasum Durani and John McKinnon, lawyers at IWC. John and Tabasum discuss how Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is funded, why it is funded that way, and also a controversial…

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What injured workers need: a community response

December 9, 2024 by Injured worker community coalition

“A community response to WSIB’s $2.5 billion gift to employers” . There is no surplus until there is full compensation: the recent round of reckless payouts to employers must be cancelled until every injured worker’s basic needs are met. The demands in…

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TBIWSG media release: Premier Ford announces $2.5 billion WSIB rebate to business

November 21, 2024 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

For those forced into poverty by work-related injury or illness, the government’s announcement that WSIB, instead of restoring decades of cutsto injured workers, are simply handing 2.5 billion dollars to employers is shocking……

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ONIWG: Scrap the age cap on workers’ compensation benefits for older injured workers

June 25, 2024 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG press release calls out age discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation legislation that gives injured or ill workers access to LOE benefits only until age 65 or for a maximum of two years if they experience injury or illness at age 63…

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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

June 19, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 9, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission prepared for IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Feb. 12) comments on proposed changes (benefit indexation, occupational disease reform) to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act in Schedule 4 of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act.…

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ODRA submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 2, 2024 by Occupational Disease Reform Alliance

Submission prepared for ODRA presentation Feb. 13 to the the Standing Committee on Social Policy draws attention to what is missing in Bill 149. While supporting addition of an esophageal cancer presumption for firefighters, the Alliance details why “such piecemeal provisions do…

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