Benefits

Labour Pains podcast #5 : WSIB’s age discrimination

October 9, 2025

In this new episode, titled “WSIB’s Age Discrimination”, IWC staff lawyer Tebasum Durani interviews legal experts (and co-workers) John McKinnon and Chris Grawey about one of the ways WSIB policies and practices create poverty, focusing specifically on what happens when workers turn…

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ONIWG: WSIB benefits & age discrimination

June 25, 2025

THUNDER BAY, Ontario, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In recognition of Seniors’ Month, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups and the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group will host a hybrid press conference on Age-Discrimination in the WSIB…

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Fact Sheet: Age Discrimination and the WSIB

June 19, 2025

Section 43(1)(c) of the WSIA allows the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to end LOE benefits when an injured worker reaches 65 years of age, or two years after the injury if the injury occurs after age 63. In effect, this…

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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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