Benefits

We demand: No cuts based on phantom jobs

September 10, 2017

Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign key demand of an end to deeming with its pretence that the injured worker has a job they do not actually have, with phantom wages an excuse to cut benefit payments. Injured workers’ loss of earning…

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Submission re Bill 148 “Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017”

July 21, 2017

IWC supports Bill 148 as an important first step for vulnerable workers struggling with the effects of precarious and unstable work. The brief proposes solutions to addressing WSIB practice of deeming so injured workers with a permanent work-related disability will not be…

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Presentation on Bill 148 to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs

July 19, 2017

In his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on “Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017”, ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage…

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Re: Our support in Bill 148, Better Jobs Act, 2017

July 15, 2017

Group fully supports the progressive changes in Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which provide protections for many new immigrants entering the labour force who, because of employment barriers, are often placed in jobs at minimum wage, physically demanding and involve…

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Fact sheet – Chart: Effects of WSIB’s deeming policy

June 30, 2017

The actual economic impact of injury on workers “deemed” by the WSIB, showing pre-injury income, net average earnings, loss of earning (LOE) benefit (85%), impact of deductions due to minimum wage increases, consequences for social support systems and the injured worker.…

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Backgrounder – Minimum wage and deeming

June 30, 2017

While raising the minimum wage in Ontario is centrally important for all workers, there is a dilemma for injured workers because of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming” – when the minimum wage goes up, injured worker benefits go down. The practice of…

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

June 14, 2017

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

June 8, 2017

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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Injured workers march to demand right to workers’ compensation

June 1, 2017

The WSIB remains singularly focused on cutting its own costs – by cutting benefits to the very people it was designed to protect. In response, injured workers and their labour and community supporters will take to the streets on Injured Workers’ Day…

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Letter to the Minister on deeming

April 6, 2017

Injured workers share their thoughts on how deeming affects their lives. Their question to the Minister: “Are you going to do the right thing and make the WSIB base our benefits on reality, instead of the jobs they pretend we have?”…

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