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Avoiding disaster – Can you prevent the minimum wage increase hurting injured workers?

ONIWG’s letter to the Minister of Labour welcomes the province’s increase in the minimum wage but warns that, unless the WSIB’s policy and practice of deeming is eliminated, this increase will hurt many permanently disabled workers by reducing their benefits.…

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Letter to Minister on unfair practice of deeming and impact of minimum wage on injured workers

In a follow-up to their April 4 letter, Bright Lights tells the Minister why, until the practice of deeming is ended, the much-needed increase to the minimum wage hurts injured workers.…

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Fact sheet – Injured workers are part of the Fight for $15 and Fairness

The struggle for decent work and the struggle for decent workers’ compensation are inextricably linked. Workers who are in precarious and low-wage jobs are also at greater risk of being injured at work, less likely to report injury or unsafe working conditions,…

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UN Convention on the Rights of People with a Disability (CRPD): ONIWG Submission

Submission focuses on systemic barriers (including WSIB practices of deeming and experience rating) encountered by injured workers and workers with disabilities when trying to maintain employment following workplace injury or illness. Referencing Articles 27 and 28 of the CRPD, ONIWG recommends a…

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Injured workers demonstrate in 7 cities, deliver open letter to WSIB and Parliamentarians to demand better healthcare from WSIB

On June 10, 2016, injured workers and their supporters are holding a province-wide Day of Action to deliver an open letter endorsed by over 140 organizations and individuals, as well as thousands of postcards signed by supporters, calling for changes at WSIB…

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WSIB misuse of IWH update on “Adequacy of Workers’ Compensation Benefits in Ontario”

Letter to the Premier regrets that the Board is ignoring the real message: why do only 48% of injured workers return to work after injury and replace over time their pre-injury earnings? The study data goes only to 2008 – before the…

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