Appeals

Submission on the proposed changes to the appeal system

September 18, 2012

Letter to the Minister of Labour, with submission to the Board, highlights concerns over the downside risk waiver, complexity of forms, and proposal to limit oral hearings. Group calls for the Board to keep the process simple and address backlog in better…

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Submission re Proposed changes to the Appeals program

September 3, 2012

Lawyer, with over 36 years’ experience representing injured workers, provides historical context for Ontario’s appeal system and, noting the backlog is a crisis of the Board’s own making, delivers a strong critique of proposed changes. In particular, letter addresses the use of…

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Are oral hearings further threatened by the KPMG Value for Money Audit?

June 26, 2009

Letter strongly disagrees with KPMG Audit of the Appeal System Practice and Procedures suggestion that oral hearings, already undervalued, should be further restricted. The right to be heard by the decision maker is the most highly valued principle of natural justice; an…

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Injured workers going to the Supreme Court of Canada

December 5, 2002

ONIWG has been given standing as an intervenor in a case that will, among other issues, consider whether workers’ compensation boards should treat chronic pain disability in the same manner as other workplace injuries and disease.…

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