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Rights don’t retire: working together to end age discrimination at the WSIB

November 25, 2025

In this report, we explain the WSIB’s age limit on benefits, why it’s outdated and unfair, and what the numbers tell us about older Ontarians’ participation in the workforce. We also outline why this law is discriminatory, as it denies support to…

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ONIWG / IWC media advisory: Injured workers call for end to discriminatory age-based cut-offs at WSIB

November 21, 2025

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On November 25th, Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups will be releasing a report entitled Rights Don’t Retire: Working Together to End Age Discrimination at the WSIB and…

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Labour Pains podcast #5 : WSIB’s age discrimination

October 9, 2025

In this new episode, titled “WSIB’s Age Discrimination”, IWC staff lawyer Tebasum Durani interviews legal experts (and co-workers) John McKinnon and Chris Grawey about one of the ways WSIB policies and practices create poverty, focusing specifically on what happens when workers turn…

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Labour Pains podcast #4 : Who killed Sir William?

July 2, 2025

In the latest episode of IWC’s podcast (formerly InjuredWorkerCast) staff lawyer Tebasum Durrani holds a discussion with Steve Mantis, co-author with Marion Endicott of Who Killed Sir William? “a reflective and analytical look at what happened to the original vision behind Ontario’s…

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Fact Sheet: Age Discrimination and the WSIB

June 19, 2025

Section 43(1)(c) of the WSIA allows the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to end LOE benefits when an injured worker reaches 65 years of age, or two years after the injury if the injury occurs after age 63. In effect, this…

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InjuredWorkerCast #3: Toronto Protest Zone bylaw

April 16, 2025

The City of Toronto is considering a bylaw that would restrict protest around what they are calling “vulnerable areas”. In episode 3 of InjuredWorkerCast IWC staff lawyer Tebasum Durani discusses the broader implications of this proposal on the community – and on…

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InjuredWorkerCast #2: Work & weather

February 13, 2025

In Episode 2 of InjuredWorkerCast, a podcast series produced by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic,  IWC Lawyer Tebasum Durani talks to an injured worker, OFL President Laura Walton, and MPP Peter Tabuns about the dangers that workers who must be outside face…

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InjuredWorkerCast #1 : Employer ‘rebates’

December 19, 2024

Episode 1 of the IWC podcast series features a conversation between Tebasum Durani and John McKinnon, lawyers at IWC.  John and Tabasum discuss how Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is funded, why it is funded that way, and also a controversial…

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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

June 19, 2024

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 9, 2024

Submission prepared for IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Feb. 12) comments on proposed changes (benefit indexation, occupational disease reform) to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act in Schedule 4 of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act.…

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