Reports, Articles & Papers

What do injured workers want? Platform for Change summary

January 25, 2015

Vision document for what the Ontario’s workers compensation system should look like. 2013 draft revision (prepared for the Meredith Conference) of the blueprint collaboratively created by the injured worker and labour community and endorsed in 2004 by the Ontario Network of Injured…

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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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Platform for Change – draft revision

August 31, 2013

Draft revision prepared for discussion Meredith ‘No Half Measures Conference’ 2013, also presented at Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Revision of 2004 April 2004 Statement outlining what injured workers want in a just and fair compensation system, originally prepared for the…

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Injured worker’s speech on Day of Mourning

April 28, 2013

Former teacher speaks on how a work injury affects the whole family in many ways and calls for universal coverage.…

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Workers’ compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers

January 1, 2013

Declaration on an all-out assault on the fundamental right to workers’ compensation, a system being designed to fail with a private-insurance approach that hurts injured workers.…

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WSIB by the numbers

May 4, 2012

Recent statistics from WSIB publications show the Oct. 2011 recommendations in the KPMG report have already been implemented. These include 27.6% lower average long-term benefit, 31% fewer permanent (NEL) awards; retraining cut from 19 to 5 months; 200 Board staff cut …..…

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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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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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A delicate dance with many partners: immigrant workers’ experiences of injury reporting and claim filing

May 1, 2011

Presentation to RAACWI Community Forum by Agnieszka Kosny and fellow researchers on their study into newcomers’ experiences with Ontario’s workers’ compensation system, what helps and what hinders; also includes survey of Canadian resources for immigrant workers.…

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