Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Letter to Minister on deeming and minimum wage (post Bill 148)

November 20, 2017

Given their many discussions with the Minister’s Office, ONIWG expresses disappointment at rejection of a proposed amendment to Bill 148……

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Injured workers launch province-wide campaign to stand up to WSIB cutbacks

September 12, 2017

ONIWG’s Workers’ Comp Is A Right (WCIAR) campaign calls for legislative changes with 3 clear demands on injustices that send injured workers into poverty……

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Workers’ Comp is a Right report

September 10, 2017

Report lays out why ONIWG is launching its campaign to address the WSIB’s cost-cutting agenda, the 3 key demands, lived experiences and proposed solutions……

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We demand: Listen to our doctors

September 10, 2017

Workers Comp Is A Right campaign key demand addresses serious problems with the way the WSIB considers medical evidence and ignores treating health professionals’ opinions ……

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We demand: Stop cutting benefits based on ‘pre-existing conditions’

September 10, 2017

Workers’ Comp Is A Right Campaign key demand calls for the WSIB to stop penalizing injured workers for “pre-existing conditions” that are asymptomatic or part of normal aging, and return to the fairer system that only affects benefits in cases where there…

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We demand: No cuts based on phantom jobs

September 10, 2017

Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign key demand of an end to deeming with its pretence that the injured worker has a job they do not actually have, with phantom wages an excuse to cut benefit payments. Injured workers’ loss of earning…

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Presentation on Bill 148 to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs

July 19, 2017

In his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on “Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017”, ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage…

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Re Consultation on Draft Traumatic and Chronic Mental Stress Policy

July 7, 2017

While supporting several draft provisions, ONIWG Submission details its concerns including failure to adequately address workplace sexual harassment; standards for entitlement different than those for physical injury; proposed distinctions between high- and low-stress jobs; legislative limits regarding employer decisions.…

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Avoiding disaster – Can you prevent the minimum wage increase hurting injured workers?

June 14, 2017

ONIWG’s letter to the Minister of Labour welcomes the province’s increase in the minimum wage but warns that, unless the WSIB’s policy and practice of deeming is eliminated, this increase will hurt many permanently disabled workers by reducing their benefits.…

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Injured workers march to demand right to workers’ compensation

June 1, 2017

The WSIB remains singularly focused on cutting its own costs – by cutting benefits to the very people it was designed to protect. In response, injured workers and their labour and community supporters will take to the streets on Injured Workers’ Day…

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