Experience Rating

Injured workers denounce premium rate reduction & death at Fiera Foods

September 26, 2019

(Press Release, Sep. 26 2019) The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) is appalled that the Ford government and WSIB are giving yet another massive gift to employers in the form of a 17% premium rate reduction, especially with…

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Employers advised to double down on injured workers with new WSIB Rate Framework

February 10, 2019

The WSIB’s switch to a new rate framework for employers in January 2020 will hit injured workers with a double whammy. Both the new and old rate systems are based on experience rating, which raises employers’ rates when accident cost or…

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“Monumental legislation” will help keep temp workers safe – but there’s a long way to go

March 13, 2018

On March 8th, the Minister of Labour announced to the Toronto Star that the province would make a small but significant change to the way employers are punished when a worker gets injured. The change – which injured workers and their advocates…

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The state of Ontario’s temporary agency work

September 13, 2017

“Undercover in temp nation” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy (Toronto Star, Sep. 9, 2017) “In workplaces around the province, the use of temp agencies limits companies’ liability for accidents on the job, reduces their responsibility for employees’ rights, and cuts costs…” In…

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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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Chinese restaurant workers – vulnerable also to claims suppression

April 27, 2016

”Widespread’workplace abuse persists for Chinese restaurant workers” / Sara Mojtehedzadeh & Nicholas Keung (Toronto Star, Apr. 25, 2016) and Editorial A just-released report – Sweet & Sour: The Struggle of Chinese Restaurant-Workers by the Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic…

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Rate Framework Consultation downplays (dismisses?) worker concerns

March 16, 2016

Since 2013, the WSIB has been engaged in what they call a “Rate Framework Consultation.” In simpler language, this means that the Board is planning on changing some of the specifics of the way that your compensation system is funded.…

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Rating the proposed Framework

October 8, 2015

Responding to the expansion and further entrenchment of experience rating in the proposed WSIB Rate Framework reforms, injured worker groups and their advocates have provided their objections and recommended alternatives in submissions to the ongoing Consultation The proposed rate framework conceptualizes the…

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Meredith justice or private insurance?

December 21, 2014

“Across Canada, worker compensation systems are in crisis.” / Ella Bedard (Rabble.ca, Dec. 15, 2015) A look at how austerity measures and an employer imbalance (especially under experience rating) are undermining Meredith’s historic compromise and hurting injured workers across the country. Delegates…

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