IWC: cuts will reduce services to injured workers

June 14, 2019

News release (June 14, 2019). On June 12th Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic was informed that our clinic’s budget was reduced by 22% retroactive to April 1st. As one of the “worker focused” specialty clinics in Ontario, we received one of the…

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Legal Aid Ontario cuts specifically target injured worker services

June 12, 2019

Today, Legal Aid Ontario announced how they will implement Doug Ford’s funding cuts. While the cuts will be devastating to a range of services and sectors, of particular interest to injured workers is the fact that the province’s three worker-focused clinics…

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Who’s left out? Calling for coverage for all

June 12, 2019

At a time when labour reforms for a changing workplace with increasingly precarious employment have been rolled back and recent funding cuts leave Ontario workers, especially temporary workers, with less protection from injury, there are renewed calls for universal workers’…

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Eugene’s Story: WSIB Helping? Or Not?

June 5, 2019

The WSIB stands for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. This is the Ontario-based Board set up to support and compensate workers who get injured and/or made ill by their jobs. Eugene is a long-time injured worker activist and well-known visual artist…

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