Employment

RTW Research study seeks injured worker participants

November 15, 2016

A team of respected researchers from across Ontario are conducting a study about Injured Worker experience with the return to work process. The researchers, including Sonja Senthanar (University of Waterloo), Katherine Lippel (University of Ottawa), and Ellen MacEachen (University of Waterloo) are…

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Upcoming: Bancroft Institute Fall 2016 Policy & Research discussion

November 6, 2016

Barriers to Return-to-Work in a Context of Social Vulnerability is the timely topic for discussion at the Nov. 17 session of the Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers’ Compensation and Work Injury. Keynote speaker Stephanie Premji, Assistant Professor, McMaster University, will…

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Maintaining employment after workplace injury or disease

October 23, 2016

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) recently presented its submission to the committee reviewing Canada’s performance under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Approximately 50,000 of the Canadian workers injured or made sick each…

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Calling on the Workplaces Review to strengthen rights

October 19, 2016

Injured Workers Consultants (IWC) was happy to make a submission on the Interim Report on the Changing Workplaces Review, in support of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) and the Workers’ Action Centre (WAC). The Changing Workplaces Review presents an important…

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Critics and injured workers question RTW policies

September 29, 2016

This article sheds light on the WSIB’s intense pressure to get workers back to work, often sooner than they are ready. This is described as a “win-win” scenario, when the WSIB saves money by not compensating the worker because he or she…

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Responding to Changing Workplaces Review interim report

September 28, 2016

The Workers’ Action Centre (WAC), with Parkdale Community Legal Services, has released “Building Decent Jobs From the Ground Up” – a comprehensive response to the Changing Workplaces Review Special Advisors’ interim report. In addition to a detailed analysis of the options…

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Exposing employee abuse in the restaurant sector

August 30, 2016

“Pilot project aims to protect vulnerable restaurant workers” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, Aug. 30, 2016) Following last month’s release of the Changing Workplaces Review Interim Report on issues facing workers in precarious jobs, the Ministry of Labour is launching a new…

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Better (when healed and safe) at work

July 26, 2016

With adequate time for medical recovery and job accommodation, an injured worker should be able to return to work safely and without fear of reinjury. In their letter to the Premier, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups calls on the…

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Calling for changes in appeal time limits

June 19, 2016

In a letter to the Attorney of General and Minister of Labour, lawyers Michael S. Green, Ellen R. Lipes, Gary Newhouse and Peter Bird, call for reforms which, at a minimum, establish a single, long duration time limit in each WSIB…

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