Benefits

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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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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Meanwhile in the House…

June 5, 2017

As injured workers were gathering outside the Assembly for Injured Workers’ Day, John Yakabuski (MPP for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke) raised a question in the Legislature on the WSIB’s hearing aid program: “This past January, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board made significant changes to…

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Bill 127 amendments to WSIA … a mixed bag

May 26, 2017

The government managed to sneak some changes to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act into this year’s Budget Measures bill, Bill 127 . The changes were buried in the very last schedule (Schedule 33) of the Act, which passed into law on…

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Access to medical marijuana unchanged

May 14, 2017

On April 13 the Canadian government introduced its proposed Cannabis Act to legalize marijuana, intended to come into effect July 2018. Based on recommendations of the Task Force for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation, the government proposes to keep in place the current…

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