Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

ONIWG-RAC: Letter to WSIB re claim suppression and abandoned claims

June 2, 2022

Letter calls on the WSIB President and CEO to meet with ONIWG regarding solutions to longstanding concerns over claims suppression, non-reporting and abandoned claims.…

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Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings

January 10, 2022

Virtual presentation to the Parliamentary Committee by Steve Mantis focuses on 3 issues: the growing gap of income inequality in Ontario (and Canada); the negative impact that is having on our democratic society that includes the reduction in public services; to alert…

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Phantom jobs, Empty Pockets

May 22, 2019

What really happens to workers with work-acquired permanent injuries unable to get back to their jobs? Using WSIB’s own documents, the ONIWG report explores the poverty-creating effects of the Board’s practice of deeming and proposes solutions.…

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Workers’ compensation: morality versus the business case

November 23, 2018

Plain language summary by Dana Howse of her doctoral thesis ‘Injured Workers’ Moral Engagement in the Compensation System: The Social Production of Problematic Claiming Experience’ with commentary by ONIWG RAC.…

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Injured worker unemployment – the hidden truth

February 23, 2018

Analysis, based on WSIB statistics, of the Board’s performance in recognizing actual wage loss and employment outcomes experienced by seriously injured workers with permanent disabilities.…

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Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

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