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ONIWG: Injured Workers’ Day arrives amid new attacks on compensation system

June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today, injured & ill workers and their allies will gather in five cities across Ontario as they have done every June 1st for 44 summers. This year, unfortunately, the events are taking place while Ontario’s Bill 105…

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ONIWG / IWC media advisory: Injured workers call for end to discriminatory age-based cut-offs at WSIB

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On November 25th, Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic and the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups will be releasing a report entitled Rights Don’t Retire: Working Together to End Age Discrimination at the WSIB and…

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TBIWSG media release: Premier Ford announces $2.5 billion WSIB rebate to business

For those forced into poverty by work-related injury or illness, the government’s announcement that WSIB, instead of restoring decades of cutsto injured workers, are simply handing 2.5 billion dollars to employers is shocking……

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ONIWG: Scrap the age cap on workers’ compensation benefits for older injured workers

ONIWG press release calls out age discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation legislation that gives injured or ill workers access to LOE benefits only until age 65 or for a maximum of two years if they experience injury or illness at age 63…

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ONIWG media release: A serious Halloween – 110 years of workers’ compensation law

On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. He set up a system that was humanitarian and…

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ONIWG demands openness & fairness in consultation process that proposes sweeping changes

ONIWG demands changes to the undemocratic consultation process for gathering feedback on changes recommended by KMPG’s value for money audit of the dispute resolution and appeals system. The Group argues that not only is the timeframe unreasonably short, but thousands of injured…

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