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Injured worker response to new appeal changes

February 26, 2013

Submission details concerns discussed at a special meeting of injured workers, attended by the Fair Practices Commissioner. Among recommendations, paper calls on the Board to eliminate the Intent to Object form, remove the reference to downside risk, restore time limit extensions and…

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Submission to the WSIB 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 9, 2012

IWC calls for legal discipline in Board policy and decisionmaking (i.e. adjudication in adherence with the law and legal principles rather than the current aggressive and “cost-effective” approach), and for consideration of institutional memory and historical perspective in adjudication (Meredith and Weiler…

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Comments on WSIB case scenarios – 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 8, 2012

Clinic hoped that looking at some real life scenarios would enlighten about the difficulty that WSIB adjudicators are having applying policy. However what the Board has provided are not case examples representative of a WSIB adjudicator’s caseload but fictional scenarios typical of…

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Submissions on WSIB consultation paper: Modernization of WSIB appeals program

October 1, 2012

Noting the backlog can be addressed without such dramatic means, IWC brief provides detailed analysis of the deeply flawed proposed changes which encroach on the right to appeal and the right to a fair hearing by injured workers. IWC calls for their…

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Letters on the Benefits policy consultation process

September 18, 2012

IWC letter to the Minister of Labour points to the steamroller of change driven by the WSIB management and the need for adequate timeframe to prepare submissions for genuine consultation; attached to letter from ONIWG to chair Jim Thomas on tight timelines,…

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Re: Why the KPMG report on adjudication is so upsetting

December 13, 2011

Clinic details objections to a poorly-researched paper by the external consulting company that advocates disbanding the key tenets of Ontario’s workers compensation system.…

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Commentary on the WSIB Framework for Policy Development and Renewal

September 19, 2011

IWC urges the Board to shape its policy also on the concept from the original purpose of Meredith’s workers’ compensation legislation: that it is remedial legislation. Legal clinic expresses concern at the process for policy development, evaluation and approval, and the emphasis…

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Workers’ Compensation Board agrees to hear hunger striker

July 27, 2011

Injured worker Jimmy Velgakis ended his hunger strike today when WSIB Chair Steve Mahoney intervened at the request of OFL president, Syd Ryan…

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