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IWC submissions to the Changing Workplaces Review

September 18, 2015

Supplementary to oral presentation made to the Special Advisors, this written submission continues to ask that the experience and perspective of injured workers be taken into account in reforming the employment standards regime. The submission’s recommendations therefore address a focus on health…

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Presentation to Changing Workplaces Review

September 11, 2015

Oral presentation describes how injured workers can fall through the cracks of employment legislation, including the Employment Standards Act, intended to protect them. The deputation before the Special Advisors explains also how other important employment laws such as the Workplace Safety and…

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Backgrounder – Experience rating

February 28, 2015

Experience rating (ER), a financial incentive program for employers used by the WSIB to promote occupational health and safety, is not achieving its goals but instead hurts injured workers in many ways. Employer resources are diverted from workplace safety improvement towards claims…

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Backgrounder – New WSIB benefits policies

November 10, 2014

A summary of the developments and funding/cost-cutting rationale leading up to the Board’s implementation of new benefits policies; with analysis of the general approach under decision makers ‘look to deny’ by questioning work relatedness every step of the way. The main way…

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Submissions on WSIB draft benefits policies

April 30, 2014

IWC calls on Board to withdraw these policies which largely disregard Jim Thomas consultation recommendations and will limit benefit entitlement in a manner that is inconsistent with the Act and the fundamental principles of workers compensation. Submission discusses origins of these policies,…

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Letter to the WSIB Chair re proposed changes to benefits policies

February 3, 2014

Letter calls for withdrawal of the proposed policies which disregard all that was said and learned in the recent consultations and appear solely designed to implement reductions in benefits proposed by the KPMG Review.…

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WSIAT draft practice directions – surveillance evidence

November 27, 2013

The harm caused by surveillance and the threat of surveillance, and its antitherapeutic effects in a social welfare scheme, outweighs any limited probative value it may have. Paper outlines concerns and recommendations.…

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Submission to the 2013 Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy

October 4, 2013

Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board’s austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers’ poverty – forcing them onto taxpayer-funded social assistance,…

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Platform for Change – draft revision

August 31, 2013

Draft revision prepared for discussion Meredith ‘No Half Measures Conference’ 2013, also presented at Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Revision of 2004 April 2004 Statement outlining what injured workers want in a just and fair compensation system, originally prepared for the…

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