Finance

InjuredWorkerCast #1 : Employer ‘rebates’

December 19, 2024

Episode 1 of the IWC podcast series features a conversation between Tebasum Durani and John McKinnon, lawyers at IWC. John and Tabasum discuss how Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is funded, why it is funded that way, and also a controversial…

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TBIWSG media release: Premier Ford announces $2.5 billion WSIB rebate to business

November 21, 2024

For those forced into poverty by work-related injury or illness, the government’s announcement that WSIB, instead of restoring decades of cutsto injured workers, are simply handing 2.5 billion dollars to employers is shocking……

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ONIWG-RAC submission to pre-budget hearings

January 31, 2024

Presentation to the Ontario Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings in Thunder Bay focuses on cost-shifting from the WSIB to provincial coffers and the financial impacts of the current workers’ compensation system.…

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ONIWG letter to Minister re Cost of Living Adjustments

September 13, 2023

A recent Toronto Star article described how a WSIB coding error in calculating the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), went unnoticed for 20 years, shortchanging more than 100,000 injured workers of $42 million. ONIWG’s letter to Minister Monte McNaughton details another situation where the…

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IWC submission on Temporary Employment Agency Rate Setting (clerical work exemption)

November 16, 2022

While IWC support the WSIB’s approach to align Temporary Employment Agency (TEA) rates with the rates of their clients’ classes, the Clinic details in its second submission why the proposed modification to create an exception for “clerical labour” is not appropriate……

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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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ONIWG: WSIB providing a financial bonanza to employers while injured workers continue to get short-changed

June 14, 2022

On June 6 the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board announced another financial handout to employers while underpaying thousands of injured workers by misapplying the law on cost-of-living adjustments and failing to increase wage-loss benefits to 90%.…

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ONIWG: response to WSIB reply on 2022 Cost-of-living adjustment

May 25, 2022

Response to WSIB’s reply to ONIWG’s April 5, 2022 letter details why the Network disagrees with the Board decision to limit the cost-of-living adjustment to 2.7% for 2022, reiterating that based on the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (s. 49(1) and Policy…

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ONIWG letter to WSIB re inflation indexing

April 5, 2022

Letter asks the President of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to use the Statistics Canada formulation (4.7%) rather than the 2.7% cost of living adjustment the WSIB has given injured workers.…

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IWC submission to the pre-budget consultation

January 25, 2022

Submission draws the Committee’s attention to the significant revenue leakage from the provincial coffers caused by Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claim suppression. In particular this revenue leakage impacts health care and social assistance, budget areas already stressed by the COVID-19…

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