Finance

Time to change the austerity agenda?

March 28, 2016

For at least the last five years, the Ontario Government and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) have been operating the province’s workers compensation system with a clear cost-saving mandate. In large part, this has been in line with a…

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What injured workers wish for in the New Year

December 23, 2015

The government has announced its choice for the new WSIB President and CEO : Thomas Teahen, Wynne’s current Chief of Staff and formerly the Board’s Chief Services Officer (2010-2013). Injured worker groups are disappointed that requests to the Premier for an open…

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Turning around the balance sheet – at whose expense?

November 21, 2015

[Updated] Two recent articles underscore how injured workers’ continue to bear the burden of the Board’s financial management: “WSIB (Ontario) on a claims-denial binge as they transfer $285 million into their investment fund fund.” / Alec Caldwell (Canadian Contractor, 10 Nov.) “The…

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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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New reports on destructive trends – a look south of the border

March 10, 2015

“Insult to Injury”, a 4-part joint investigative series by ProPublica and NPR (National Public Radio) takes an in-depth look at the decimation of workers’ comp in the United States. Using statistical and official documentary evidence, it also lays bare through injured workers’…

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Responding to Marshall’s claims

February 9, 2015

The Jan. 31 2015 Toronto Star article “Meet the man injured Ontario workers ‘love to hate'” drew many comments on the Star’s website, and published letters to the editor: “WSIB destroys workers’ lives” (Hamilton Spectator, Feb. 9). Jeannie Howe, Southwestern Vice-President of…

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WSIB’s Marshall: financial saviour or modern day bounty hunter?

February 1, 2015

“Meet the man Ontario injured workers ‘love to hate’ ” / Richard J. Brennan (Toronto Star, Jan. 31, 2015) Injured workers sincerely wish they had reason to praise the WSIB CEO and President for leadership of a fair compensation system. However in…

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Injured workers betrayed by WSIB President’s re-appointment

January 19, 2015

ONIWG’s Letter to the Premier and press release share the outrage felt at the recent two-year extension to the term of I. David Marshall as the Board’s CEO and President, despite widespread opposition to his role in creating a Board so hostile…

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“This travesty cannot continue”

December 16, 2014

“Intent of WSIB skewed by CEO” [letter] ⁄ Jules Tupker (Chronicle Journal, Dec. 16, 2014) (no longer available on newspaper website) Applause for the recent editorial “WSIB savings come at a cost” in Thunder Bay’s Chronicle Journal and outrage at the prospect…

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We called for fairness? How well did they listen?

September 25, 2014

Two recent events provide a disappointing answer: Last week the WSIB Board of Directors approved revised benefits policies without consulting on the changes to the last draft Premier Wynne’s letter of mandate today to the Minister of Labour asks him to consider…

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