Benefits

Letter re Workers’ compensation platforms

August 31, 2011

Letter (Nov. 2, 2010) to leaders of Ontario’s provincial parties, outlining changes and problems with funding and benefit levels in the workers’ compensation system and requesting publication of their policies; addresses deeming, inflation, Serious Injuries Program. Follow-up letter (Aug. 31, 2011) alerts…

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It’s raining cutbacks at Queen’s Park

May 30, 2011

On eve of annual vigil and Injured Workers’ Day rally, although the economy is recovering, injured workers are facing cuts to their benefits (with only 0.5% cost of living adjustment) , cuts to their pain medication, cuts to their retraining courses, and…

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Submissions to WSIB Interim Work Reintegration Policy consultation

February 15, 2011

While the new policies take some steps in the right direction, legal clinic details concerns that others are a giant step backwards – particularly in regard to the expansion of deeming and experience rating, stricter time limits and expenses.…

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Securing our retirement future: Consultation with Ontarians

November 30, 2010

Submission for the Federal-Provincial consultation on retirement income security addresses the need to increase the retirement pension under the Canada Pension Plan, require workers’ compensation boards to maintain contributions to the CPP for lost earnings from work-related disability, exclude all periods of…

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Who cares about injured workers today?

November 10, 2010

While employers are still protected from lawsuits, injured workers are increasingly without compensation or employment. Open letter outlines their key needs, at a time when the Board seems to be focusing on benefit reductions to attend to its finances.…

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New WSIB Funding Review – are Ontario’s injured workers on the chopping block again?

October 4, 2010

Does the new Funding Review mean injured workers will once again face benefit cuts as a result of a false financial crisis?…

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Backgrounder: Why are injured workers expecting cuts?

June 3, 2010

Statements on the public record explain why injured workers see benefit cuts coming.…

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June 1st rally : the elephant in Queen’s Park

May 30, 2010

Since the release of last year’s survey of injured workers revealing they experience nearly 4 times the poverty rate in Ontario, it appears more cuts to benefits are coming following an invented financial crisis – with all roads leading back to the…

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Submission re Auditor General’s report on the unfunded liability of the WSIB

May 28, 2010

Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts outlines injured workers’ concern for threats to their benefits headlined in the Auditor General’s press release of Dec. 2009; includes analysis of his report and history of unfunded liability.…

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re consideration of the 2009 Report of the Auditor General on the WSIB Unfunded Liability

April 20, 2010

Submission notes the study cited by the A-G in referencing concerns about rising benefit costs is in fact a WSIB report, not one prepared by the independent Institute for Work & Health. Contrary to the report’s claims, data shows a dramatic decrease…

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