Benefits

Letter re WSIB draft benefits policies

March 14, 2014

Lawyers’ letter to Premier Wynne protests the explicit attack on the rights of injured workers, calling for the withdrawal of draft policies which codify a massive cutback on benefits and are tantamount to a re-writing of the legislation.…

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Letter to WSIB Chair re Benefits Policy Review

February 11, 2014

Proposed policy changes would effectively remove the “thin skull” common law principle that Ontario’s workers’ compensation act specifically incorporated – based on Meredith’s recommendations – as a fair protection for injured workers. ONIWG calls on the Chair to abandon these draft policies.…

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Letter to the WSIB Chair re Draft benefits policies

February 6, 2014

Letter protests both the consultation process and the draft policies which will solidify a major shift in WSIB decision-making; to cut costs workplace injuries will be systematically blamed on pre-existing conditions.…

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Re: Disregarding Harry Arthurs’ recommendations for injured workers

February 6, 2014

Letter calls on the Premier to implement Arthurs’ Report recommendations on full cost of living adjustments.…

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Letter to the WSIB Chair re proposed changes to benefits policies

February 3, 2014

Letter calls for withdrawal of the proposed policies which disregard all that was said and learned in the recent consultations and appear solely designed to implement reductions in benefits proposed by the KPMG Review.…

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Re [Harry Arthurs’ recommendations on the unfunded liability]

July 17, 2013

Despite recommendations of the Funding Review report, the government has not implemented rate increases or full cost-of living adjustments of benefits.…

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Brief commentary on occupational disease benefits issues and Bill 76

June 11, 2013

Bill 76 contains half-measures; it fails to address the injustice of workers dying of compensible illnesses, often with long latency periods, who receive no entitlement to lost earnings if not diagnosed before they have retired or left the workforce. Submission also proposes…

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A review of WSIB case scenarios

November 15, 2012

Presentation to the WSIB Benefits Policy Consultation discusses fallacies in the Board’s scenarios of “aggravation basis” and overcompensation, recurrences, permanent impairments; treatment of workers with degenerative conditions that is creating a windfall for employers; KPMG influence on proposed policies.…

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Submission to WSIB Benefits Policy Review

November 14, 2012

Injured workers with real experience in dealing with the Board respond angrily to the case scenarios issued by the Board, stories carefully drafted to garner support for additional erosion of benefits rather than assist policy review. In the proposals, Group urges no…

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Submission to the WSIB 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 9, 2012

IWC calls for legal discipline in Board policy and decisionmaking (i.e. adjudication in adherence with the law and legal principles rather than the current aggressive and “cost-effective” approach), and for consideration of institutional memory and historical perspective in adjudication (Meredith and Weiler…

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