Employment

“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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The Changing Workplaces Review & the injured worker

September 28, 2015

The Injured Workers’ Consultants Community Legal Clinic has, in its submissions to the ongoing Changing Workplaces Review, asked for the experience and perspective of injured workers to be taken into account in reforming the employment standards regime. The Sep. 18 IWC …

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Women’s health & the workplace

August 26, 2015

Some recent discussions on the role of gender and tasks as they affect the working experiences of women… Canadian researchers Katherine Lippel and Karen Messing were among presenters at the International Conference “Women’s Work & Health” held March 2015 in Brussels. Organized…

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Worker with disability in toxic environment failed by system

July 24, 2015

“Forced out by a broken system: my endless battle for workplace safety” (RankAndFile.ca, July 23, 2015) A worker with a permanent disability, enduring persistent psychological harassment and threats of physical violence, recounts her efforts through multiple means and agencies to gain what…

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Study a wake-up call

July 6, 2015

The workplace is the site of 18 to 28% of serious injuries suffered by Canadian adults. In Ontario, while most WSIB claims involve no or little lost time, nearly 15,000 injured workers a year have a recognized permanent impairment. However the current…

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Worker rights in the changing workplace

June 24, 2015

With three public consultations already held in the GTA and Ottawa, the Ministry of Labour’s Changing Workplaces Review moves to Guelph tomorrow. The Review, led by special advisors, C. Michael Mitchell, and the Honourable John C. Murray, is looking at how the…

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Seeking protection for the injured and ill in precarious work

May 19, 2015

“Ontario allowing employers to fire workers without cause” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh (Toronto Star, May 17, 2015) Toronto injured worker Gordon Butler asked his employer, a small construction company in Markham, for one day off work after he sliced his thumb open on…

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Labour law review to cover precarious workers

February 17, 2015

The Ministry of Labour will launch a public consultation this Spring that looks at how Ontario’s current Labour Relations Act and Employment Standards Act meet the new realities of the workplace. This includes a labour market where, as reported in the 2013 …

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Double amputee denied by Board

November 23, 2014

“WSIB says no to U.S. program that inspired double amputee to walk” / Patty Winsa (Toronto Star, Nov. 23, 2014) Giuseppe Chessari, who lost both legs in a 2009 industrial accident at a Mississauga recycling company, needs to replace outdated artificial limbs…

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Part-time work exposing workers to a greater risk of injury

October 5, 2014

“The 15-hour work week: Canada’s part-time problem” / Tavia Grant (The Globe and Mail, Oct. 4, 2014) Article discusses the growing number of involuntary part-time, temporary and contract jobs in Canada’s labour market and the social consequences of this unsteady or precarious…

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