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Update from the ONIWG AGM & Conference

June 26, 2019

Fair workers’ compensation for victims of occupational disease (and lessons learned in fighting for it) was just one of the topics addressed at last week’s annual general meeting and conference of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. The OFL/ONIWG joint…

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Legal aid cuts threaten program serving low-income workers in southwest Ontario

June 18, 2019

The results of the government report were damning, finding workplace violations widespread in Ontario: we conclude that there is a serious problem with enforcement of ESA (Employment Standards Act) provisions. While most employers likely comply or try to comply … there are…

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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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Injured Workers Day – a rally against poverty & privatization

June 5, 2019

Fortunately the sun shone Saturday as injured workers, their families, advocates, labour unions and supporters gathered at Queen’s Park for the 36th annual Injured Workers’ Day, following the Friday night vigil. The event was one of several held around the…

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Call for research participants for work mobility study

May 28, 2019

Researchers at Memorial University would like to hear from injured workers with a physical disability on their experiences with work-related travel – either to work or during the work day. You do not have to be currently employed to participate. Share your…

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Workers’ compensation concerns raised in the House

May 28, 2019

New Democrat Labour critic Wayne Gates (MPP – Niagara Falls) introduced Bill 119, Respecting Injured Workers Act (Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment), in the Legislative Assembly today. Intended to remedy the harmful Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) practice of deeming…

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ONIWG launches whistleblower report on deeming

May 22, 2019

What happens to people who are injured at work? Most of the time, workers heal and they return to their regular jobs and lives. But what about those workers who don’t fully recover? Some of those people are looked after by workers’…

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