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Update on Bill 148 and injured workers

July 26, 2017

Two weeks of public hearings around the province by the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs considering Bill 148 , the”Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017“, wrapped up last Friday. While welcoming its measures to improve working conditions for the…

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Defending the rights of injured workers – making common cause

July 26, 2017

In the current issue of Canadian Dimension Aidan Macdonald, a community legal worker with Injured Workers’ Consultants CLC, explains why the struggle against poverty wages and for universal workers’ compensation coverage are inextricably linked. The injured worker movement, with a decades-long history…

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Let’s ensure no injured worker is left behind

June 25, 2017

While injured workers welcome the minimum wage increase (to $15 by 2019) introduced with Bill 148 Fair Workplaces, Better jobs Act, they remind the government that unless the WSIB’s practice of deeming is ended, this measure will hurt many permanently disabled…

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Injured worker’s human rights complaint launched on International Day for Elimination of Racism

March 21, 2016

“Migrant farm worker launches discrimination complaint against WSIB” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Mar. 21, 2016) Robert Sulph, a seasonal farm worker for 24 years in Ontario, suffered life-threatening injuries in August 2013 when a defective saw almost sliced his neck open…

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“You don’t know what it’s like…”

October 12, 2015

The UK effort to get the disabled off benefits has had a horrific impact on people deemed fit to work. Decisions to cut benefits by authorities like the WSIB can have much more than a financial impact. As many injured workers will…

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Thunder Bay injured workers tell panel how minimum wage & deeming a bad combination

October 19, 2013

“Minimum wage discussion in Thunder Bay” (NetNewsLedger, Oct. 19, 2103) Greg Snider and Steve Mantis of the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group addressed the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel. While supporting an increase in the minimum wage pegged to inflation…

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