Benefits

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

June 25, 2024

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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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

June 19, 2024

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 9, 2024

Submission prepared for IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Feb. 12) comments on proposed changes (benefit indexation, occupational disease reform) to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act in Schedule 4 of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act.…

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ONIWG-RAC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 2, 2024

While supporting the Bill’s introduction of an additional indexing factor for workers’ compensation benefits, the submission proposes additional measures to address injured worker poverty: adjusting the WSIB Loss of Retirement Income so it equals the losses in contributions to the Canada Pension…

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ONIWG-RAC letter to Minister of Labour re Bill 149

January 8, 2024

Followup to letter of Nov. 23, 2023. ONIWG encourages the Minister to amend the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act provisions in Bill 149, Working for Workers Act Four, by increasing the percentage of of the Loss of Retirement so it…

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OLCWCN letter to the Minister of Labour re Bill 149

November 27, 2023

The Network proposes amendments to schedule 4 of the Working for Workers Four Act that would decrease the poverty of injured workers: restore the Loss of Earnings benefit rate to 90% of net pre-injury earnings; restore the WSIB’s contribution to the Loss…

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ONIWG letter to Minister re Cost of Living Adjustments

September 13, 2023

A recent Toronto Star article described how a WSIB coding error in calculating the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), went unnoticed for 20 years, shortchanging more than 100,000 injured workers of $42 million. ONIWG’s letter to Minister Monte McNaughton details another situation where the…

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Media release: ONIWG seeks fair cost-of-living adjustment for injured workers

December 13, 2022

Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) is challenging the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) unreasonable calculation of the annual cost-of-living adjustment for 2022……

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IWC submission to Consultation on Serious Injury Program and Independent Living Policy suite

October 14, 2022

Submission notes that almost all of the benefits outlined in the Independent Living Policy Suite legally (under ss. 32, 33 of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act) are and should continue to be available to all injured workers – not only those…

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Thunder Bay & DIWSG Submission to the WSIB Serious Injury Program consultation

October 13, 2022

Response to phase I of the WSIB’s consultation on the Independent Living policy suite, following the value-for-money audit of the Serious Injuries Program. In addition to feedback on the specific consultation questions, the submission highlights the negative consequences suffered by many injured…

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