Experience rating

IWC submission on Temporary Employment Agency rate setting

June 29, 2022

The Clinic’s position has long been that the experience rating system is ineffective in improving health and safety, and encourages claims suppression. Until eliminated, submission recommends that temporary employment agencies move to their new applicable premium rate established by the WSIB.…

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ONIWG letter re Temporary Employment Agency rate setting

June 29, 2022

ONIWG states its position that the consultation is unnecessary and that the WSIB should implement the new rate setting framework for Temporary Employment Agencies (TEA) that was to be introduced in 2020……

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IWC submission to Standing Committee on Bill 27

November 17, 2021

The submission proposes legislative amendments to Schedule 6 of Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021, on the WSIB’s distribution of ‘surplus’ funds. Recommendations focus on the need to 1) incorporate in the formula for determining a surplus position an assessment…

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IWC Submission to Temporary Help Agency Consultation

January 28, 2021

Temp agency workers do the most dangerous work with the least protection and with lower wages and benefits. IWC urges the government to make client companies of temp help agencies rather than the agencies themselves liable for WSIB premiums based on injuries,…

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ERWG Submission re Rate Framework Consultation

January 18, 2018

Submission focuses on the Temporary Employment Agencies policy which does nothing to further the workplace health and safety of temporary workers. Proposed measures means the use of temporary workers is still a way employers can avoid premium increases from their injuries, and…

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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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Workers concerns downplayed and misrepresented by Rate Framework Consultation

March 16, 2016

Letter to the WSIB Chair protests the Consultation’s virtual dismissal of worker-side concerns submitted, with considerable time and effort, by injured worker groups, labour and advocates.…

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Submission re Bill 109, Employment and Labour Statute Amendment Act 2015

November 25, 2015

Many of the injured workers IWC assists are women, immigrants, and work in non-union or precarious employment situations. The Clinic supports the bill’s proposed amendment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (s.22) which would target direct and indirect claims suppression but…

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Submissions to the WSIB Rate Framework Reform Consultation

October 2, 2015

Ignoring the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Occupational Health & Safety and the Arthurs Report, the Proposed Rate Framework would make claims experience the main driver of premium rates for all Schedule I employers. Inconsistent with the Act, the framework proposes…

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Bright Lights submission on Rate Framework

October 1, 2015

Bright Lights believes that the proposed rate framework is still an experience rating system, and does nothing to address the concerns outlined in ONIWG’s submission. Includes a collection of stories about how experience rating has affected some of the group’s members, and…

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