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We called for fairness? How well did they listen?

September 25, 2014

Two recent events provide a disappointing answer: Last week the WSIB Board of Directors approved revised benefits policies without consulting on the changes to the last draft Premier Wynne’s letter of mandate today to the Minister of Labour asks him to consider…

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Upcoming Fall 2014 Bancroft discussion: healthy interactions?

September 23, 2014

In the third of the Bancroft Institute’s Policy and Research Discussion series, to be held Friday October 31, keynote speakers Beth Kilgour and Agnieszka Kosny will discuss findings from their qualitative literature review of interaction between injured workers and their insurers in…

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Fall 2014 Eastern Ontario H&S/WCB Labour School

September 17, 2014

Kingston & District Labour Council have opened registration for the Fall 2014 Eastern Ontario H&S/WCB Labour School. Classes will be held Nov. 19-23 at the Isaiah Tubbs Resort & Conference Centre RR 1, West Lake Road, Picton Ontario K0K 2T0. Download course…

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New federal appeals process for CPP disability benefits harming the most vulnerable

September 12, 2014

“Ottawa’s unjust approach to disability insurance” / Jackie Chen (Toronto Star, Sep. 12, 2014) “Creation of a new, inadequate Social Security Tribunal was a cut to federal disability insurance by stealth, at the expense of the most vulnerable”… Canada Pension Plan (CPP)…

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OFL questions falling claims statistics

September 7, 2014

“Work-related injuries on decline in Ontario: WSIB statistics” / Antonella Artuso (Toronto Sun, Sep. 6). The WCB/WSIB points to a sharp decline in time lost to employment-related accidents and injuries as reason for a freeze in employers’ premiums for the second year…

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September issue of ONIWG newspaper now available

September 7, 2014

Issue no.6 of “Justice for Injured Workers”, the must-read newspaper of the Ontario Network for Injured Workers Groups, has just been published. Find details of campaigns and activities of groups around the province and updates on what’s new in workers’ compensation at…

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Oct. 3 lecture by Australian researcher Alex Collie

September 3, 2014

Dr Alex Collie, Chief Research Officer of Australia’s Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, will be speaking in Toronto in the CIHR Research Chair in Gender, Work & Health Speaker Series. His topic: “Complexity and adaptation in workers’ compensation systems: observations…

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Manitoulin injured workers demo shines light on new Board plan: “deny, deny, deny”

August 7, 2014

“Injured workers hold demonstration to raise awareness” / (Manitoulin Expositor, Aug. 6, 2014) With their demonstration at the Kagawong Summer Festival, Manitoulin North Shore Injured Workers Group (MNIWG) raised awareness of what their 38 members, and other injured workers around the province,…

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Mining safety questioned in the Assembly

July 16, 2014

Following the recent mining death at North American Palladium (the seventh miner killed on the job in Ontario this year) questions were raised on what action the government is taking and if, like Nova Scotia, it will appoint a special prosecutor to…

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Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act re-introduced

July 16, 2014

Bill 18 [read text] was given first reading in the Assembly today. The bill reintroduces Bill 146 from the previous session, extending workplace protection to vulnerable workers, including migrant workers. Schedule 5 of the bill amends the Workplace Safety and…

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