Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Submission on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan

February 6, 2015

ONIWG suggests ways for the ORPP to avoid design flaws of the Canada Pension Plan that might unfairly reduce an injured worker’s retirement benefit…

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Injured workers denounce $400,000 bonus to WSIB President and CEO

January 19, 2015

Despite widespread opposition, I. David Marshall has been re-appointed for 2 years and is in line to receive a bonus while injured workers’ benefits are being cut in real terms by the meagre cost of living adjustments they will receive.…

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Letter re Re-appointment of I. David Marshall

January 16, 2015

Letter to Premier on the betrayal injured workers feel at the extended appointment of WSIB President who has made the Board an institution that is hostile and contemptuous towards injured workers. ONIWG asks why the secrecy and lack of transparency about the…

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Workers to air the WSIB’s dirty laundry outside Ministry of Labour

December 8, 2014

Annual demo will highlight all that’s toxic at the Board – and why injured workers shouldn’t pay the price for WSIB austerity measures…

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Letter to Premier Wynne re Restoring fairness to the WSIB

July 22, 2014

ONIWG targets the lack of justice in the Board’s treatment of injured workers and its own employees under its current leadership.…

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Re Stopping the WSIB benefits policies scandals

April 4, 2014

Open letter calls on Premier Wynne to not allow the WSIB to change the law governing workers’ compensation in Ontario by way of internal policy change. A massive attack on the rights of injured workers, the proposed policies change the very foundation…

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Questions for the candidates

April 1, 2014

Responses requested by candidates in the Provincial Election 2014 on benefits policies, current Board leadership and deeming.…

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Letter to WSIB Chair re Benefits Policy Review

February 11, 2014

Proposed policy changes would effectively remove the “thin skull” common law principle that Ontario’s workers’ compensation act specifically incorporated – based on Meredith’s recommendations – as a fair protection for injured workers. ONIWG calls on the Chair to abandon these draft policies.…

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How far does an injured worker have to go to get a fair hearing?

November 14, 2013

72-year-old injured worker Jimmy Velgakis begins a second hunger strike outside the WSIB offices to get a fair decision based on the merits and justice of his case (for a back injury). Despite promises made at the time of his 2011 hunger…

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Letter to the Minister of Labour on Employer assessments

July 17, 2013

After Board announces no increases in employer assessments, group asks why the Funding Review recommendations on these and full indexation of benefits are being ignored.…

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