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June 1st is Injured Workers’ Day – Let’s Make it Official!

May 16, 2024

On June 1, 1983, over three thousand injured workers forced a government committee looking at major changes to Ontario’s workers’ compensation system to conduct a public hearing on the steps of the Legislature, because there wasn’t enough room inside! Every year since,…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Injured workers

Monthly injured workers’ meetings at IWC

April 8, 2024

We are happy to announce that Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic (IWC) is launching a new monthly hybrid meeting (in person and on zoom/telephone) that will combine the educational aspects of our Know Your Rights sessions with the social aspects, peer support,…

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Filed Under: Education, Injured workers

Update: claims deadline for Oxy addiction class settlement extended

February 22, 2024

Do you know someone who was on OxyContin or OxyNEO? There is a Canadian class action on behalf of people who were prescribed OxyContin or OxyNEO anytime between January 1, 1996, and February 28, 2017 and became addicted. A $20 million settlement…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Pain therapy

Watch public hearings on Bill 149 changes to workers’ compensation

February 8, 2024

The Ontario Government has recently introduced Bill 149, which it calls the Working for Workers Four Act, 2023. It is proposing changes to a number of labour laws, including the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, which makes the rules for how…

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Filed Under: Benefits, Law Reform, Occupational disease, Workers compensation

Peterborough remembers a history of industrial hazards

January 21, 2024

The Peterborough Occupational Disease Action Committee (PODAC) is leading the charge to raise funds for a memorial monument that will honour the lives of workers who succumbed to occupational diseases. “We want to ensure the legacy of occupational disease is not soon…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Injured workers, Occupational disease

Remembering Dr Ron Ellis

January 3, 2024

As we move into the new year, the legal and injured worker community continue to honour the memory and achievements of engineer, labour lawyer, arbitrator, teacher and legal scholar Dr Ron Ellis. His lifelong work promoting fairness in administrative justice and workers’…

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Filed Under: Law Reform, Workers compensation

Legal clinics receive health & safety award

December 12, 2023

On November 23rd, 2023, Injured Workers Community Legal Aid Clinic (IWC) was the co-recipient of the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Prevention Link Health and Safety Award, which was shared with the staff of IAVGO Legal Clinic. The award, which was given out…

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Filed Under: Law Reform, Legal services, Safety

Opportunity for experienced practitioners to participate in survey on work-related suicide

December 7, 2023

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have begun a study of work-related suicide among Canadian workers. Many of us in the injured worker community have met workers who have contemplated taking their own lives or know people who have done so. The…

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Filed Under: Mental Health, Research

Migrant worker deeming case celebration

November 13, 2023

In a landmark decision Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) recently ruled that the WSIB’s practice of ending compensation to migrant farm workers after 12 weeks, sometimes less, without regard for their individual circumstances was inappropriate. The Tribunal reinstated loss…

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Filed Under: Benefits, Deeming, Migrant workers

A new resource for B.C.’s injured workers

November 13, 2023

IWRAP (Injured Workers Research & Advocacy Project) has just launched a new website (https://wcbadvocacybc.ca/) for injured workers, their advocates and a better compensation system in B.C.   Spearheaded by lawyer and workers’ compensation expert Janet Patterson and endorsed by the B.C.…

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Filed Under: Actions & Campaigns, Education, Workers compensation

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