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Workers’ Compensation News

May 4, 2012

The WSIB has already started implementing the KPMG Value for Money Audit cost-cutting recommendations on adjudication and claims administration, with cuts to long-term benefits and NEL awards, job retraining and Board staff.…

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McGuinty’s choice of WSIB Chair called a betrayal of injured workers

April 30, 2012

Response to the appointment of Elizabeth Witmer, former Minister of Labour under the Harris Government, whose reforms (including the draconian Bill 99) introduced private insurance practices into Ontario’s workers’ compensation and saw a resulting rise in poverty levels among injured workers…

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Injured workers and poverty survey 2010: full report

March 1, 2012

Study, led by Bonnie Heath, surveys Ontario injured workers 2010-2011 on the economic, social and health impacts of work injury.…

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KPMG compensation for dummies

December 5, 2011

Summary of consultant’s report recommendations that do further damage to injured workers’ rights and benefits; includes link to petition MPPs.…

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Additional submission to Professor Harry Arthurs regarding indexation of benefits

November 18, 2011

In applauding the provisional report’s statement that the restoration of full indexing is a matter of urgency and fundamental fairness, the organizations call for ongoing improvements to catch-up indexing and restitution of past losses through a corrective Friedland formula for annual adjustments.…

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Ontario’s injured worker community stands in solidarity with the movement against “austerity” measures proposed by KPMG

November 16, 2011

ONIWG reminds the government of the Historic Compromise in calling for it to reject Value-for-Money Audit report that would see cost-cutting on the backs of injured workers – while assessments paid by employers are about 22% lower than they were 15 years…

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Supplementary submission to the WSIB Funding Review

August 31, 2011

Response to the Marshall submissions, including the Nexus paper and Eckler models on funding levels. Through its emphasis on full pre‐funding of the system and claims cost based rate‐setting, the Marshall scheme threatens to undermine the goals of workers’ compensation as a…

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ONIWG members identify critical issues with WSIB practices

June 15, 2011

Recent consultations with ONIWG members highlight benefit cuts, expansion of experience rating, and independence of Funding Review as major concerns…

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It’s raining cutbacks at Queen’s Park

May 30, 2011

On eve of annual vigil and Injured Workers’ Day rally, although the economy is recovering, injured workers are facing cuts to their benefits (with only 0.5% cost of living adjustment) , cuts to their pain medication, cuts to their retraining courses, and…

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Preliminary submissions on funding to the WSIB Funding Review

April 5, 2011

ONIWG asks why the review is not considering the issue of coverage, given the potential additional revenue from assessments if all workers were covered. The submission points out that if employer assessments had not been decreased, there would be no “financial crisis”;…

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