Benefits

Taking action on Board’s pre-existing conditions policy

October 4, 2017

In May 2017 Ontario’s Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) with Decision 468/17 again challenged the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s use of “pre-existing conditions” to reduce the Non-Economic Loss (NEL) benefit in its adjudication of claims for a work-related permanent disability. Administrative law expert…

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Registration open – Bancroft Institute session on pre-existing conditions

September 24, 2017

The 2017/2018 season of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury gets underway Tuesday week on October 3rd. The first session is a full-day event to share the latest information from both health care and legal perspectives on…

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Up for debate…

September 16, 2017

A busy first week as the Legislative Assembly resumed sitting .. On Monday September 11, Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 was reported (with amendments) from the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, and House debate on…

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Rights campaign kicks off

September 12, 2017

Ahead of a press conference by injured workers this morning at Queen’s Park on a flawed workers’ compensation system, CBC’s Metro Morning interviewed injured worker David Morales about the reasons behind the Workers’ Comp Is a Right Campaign. In his own…

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Reminder: Workers’ Comp is a Right campaign launch

September 8, 2017

At a community forum this coming Monday, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers will be launching its Workers’ Compensation is a Right campaign. Injured workers across the province are calling for an end to some of the main methods by which the…

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Changes to Ontario social assistance programs

September 8, 2017

Several of the changes to the province’s social assistance programs – Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works – announced in the April Budget are now in effect. These build on other initiatives over the past year, including a simpler, less …

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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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A question of evidence

July 18, 2017

Cutting benefits in spite of the evidence – IAVGO Community Clinic’s recently released report, No Evidence: The Decisions of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, is a strong indictment of the Board’s “bad faith decision-making”. The analysis of the Appeals Tribunal…

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Seeking justice for current chronic mental stress claimants

July 5, 2017

“Lawsuit seeks relief for injured workers struggling with mental illness.” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, July 5, 2017) While a recent amendment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (Bill 127) extended entitlement to compensation for workers with chronic mental…

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