Employment

Working towards safety

June 18, 2017

With the start of the summer job season, the Ministry of Labour’s annual inspection and enforcement blitz got underway, aimed at ensuring workers are safe at work and know their rights. Although Ontario now has mandatory occupational health and safety (OH&S) awareness…

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Support for families of the injured worker?

April 19, 2017

A work-related injury or illness affects not only the worker but also the family on whom they rely for support. The social, emotional, financial and health toll on households is frequently substantial: lower income or poverty, changed family dynamics, physical strains…

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Injured workers: what deeming means to us

April 7, 2017

Despite government promises to eliminate deeming, injured workers remain victims of the WSIB practice under a new name (“determining”). Phantom job, phantom wages : “Deeming” refers to the practice used by the workers’ compensation Board to decide the compensation that it…

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Injured Workers—A Voice for Justice for All

April 3, 2017

(The following account of last week’s hearing at the Supreme Court of the Quebec workers’ compensation appeal case and its personal significance is written by injured worker Sang Hun Mun with B. Lim) It was Thursday, March 30th, 2017. More than 15…

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A Toxic Workplace—Not a “Careful” Workplace

April 1, 2017

By Terri Aversa, Health and Safety Officer, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Sometimes the best way to define a toxic workplace is to define what’s not. A “careful” workplace is not a toxic workplace. A “careful” workplace is what psychologist and…

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Injured workers heading to the Supreme Court

March 28, 2017

This Thursday (Mar. 30) injured workers will be in the gallery for the Supreme Court hearing on the appeal case Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (formerly CSST) v. Alain Caron [read summary …

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Keeping healthcare workers safe

March 14, 2017

“Health-care workers face ‘epidemic of violence'” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Mar. 13, 2017) & Editorial The hazards faced by Ontario’s nurses and personal support workers, including musculoskeletal disorders from client handling and disease exposures, make health-care sector injuries the second highest…

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Last chance to register! Bancroft Institute on RTW

February 7, 2017

This Thursday evening and Friday (see full agenda) the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury tackles the challenge of Measuring Return to Work. How does the WSIB measure it? How is it measured in other jurisdictions? Can we…

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Report: Concern over appropriate and safe RTW

January 9, 2017

“Doctors frustrated workers’ compensation boards seem to ignore medical opinions, report says” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Jan. 9, 2017) A two-year study [read Final report], led by Institute for Work and Health scientist Agnieszka Kosny, looked at healthcare providers’ interactions…

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Safety in return to work

November 25, 2016

Joan Eakin, professor emerita with the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, was a recent guest on Thunder Bay’s Community Conversations. The cable channel show is hosted by Steve Mantis, injured worker activist and fellow researcher. In…

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