Fact Sheets

Universal coverage overview

November 27, 2020

Every worker deserves to have a safety net to protect, prevent, and provide during workplace injuries – attention paid to workers compensation coverage in Ontario has been lacking; COVID-19 has focused attention on why universal coverage is important ……

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Backgrounder – The problem with deeming

February 25, 2018

The WSIB’s practice of ‘deeming’ presumes full employment. However the Board’s statistics show that about 40% of workers with permanent injuries whom the Board is assisting with placement outside their pre-injury employer cannot get the job they were trained for – yet…

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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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Fact sheet – Chart: Effects of WSIB’s deeming policy

June 30, 2017

The actual economic impact of injury on workers “deemed” by the WSIB, showing pre-injury income, net average earnings, loss of earning (LOE) benefit (85%), impact of deductions due to minimum wage increases, consequences for social support systems and the injured worker.…

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Backgrounder – Minimum wage and deeming

June 30, 2017

While raising the minimum wage in Ontario is centrally important for all workers, there is a dilemma for injured workers because of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming” – when the minimum wage goes up, injured worker benefits go down. The practice of…

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Fact sheet – Injured workers are part of the Fight for $15 and Fairness

April 3, 2017

The struggle for decent work and the struggle for decent workers’ compensation are inextricably linked. Workers who are in precarious and low-wage jobs are also at greater risk of being injured at work, less likely to report injury or unsafe working conditions,…

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Workplace chronic mental stress claims in Ontario

November 15, 2016

With passage of Bill 99 (1998), the WSIB no longer accepts claims for mental stress conditions that emerge over time. Despite an Appeals Tribunal finding that it is unconstitutional and discriminatory to exclude chronic mental injuries, workers continue to be denied coverage,…

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Backgrounder – Clothing allowance

October 30, 2016

A clothing allowance is a yearly sum injured workers receive if they wear a brace or other device needed for their injury that causes clothing damage. After successful lobbying to restore full funding after the allowance was halved by the WSIB during…

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