Injured Workers Online

Working Together for Justice

Working Together for Justice
Home / Finance

Finance

Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings

Virtual presentation to the Parliamentary Committee by Steve Mantis focuses on 3 issues: the growing gap of income inequality in Ontario (and Canada); the negative impact that is having on our democratic society that includes the reduction in public services; to alert…

Download Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings Continue reading Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings

IWC submission re WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation

Submission questions consultation objective of redistributing surplus funds to employers when it is injured workers and their benefits that were sacrificed to eliminate the unfunded liability in the first place and achieve the resulting surplus funding. While the Speer-Dykeman report refused to…

Download IWC submission re WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation Continue reading IWC submission re WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation

ONIWG submission on WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation

In its response to the Ministry of Labour’s consultation on how the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) should distribute “surplus” funds, ONIWG details the legislative obligations to injured workers that must first be fully and properly met. Elimination of the unfunded…

Download ONIWG submission on WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation Continue reading ONIWG submission on WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation

Submissions to Parliamentary Committee pre-budget hearings, Dryden

Presentation by Steve Mantis to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings addresses the growing income inequality, its negative impacts on a democratic society, and how austerity cuts have hurt injured workers. The attached supplementary submission discusses the development…

Download Submissions to Parliamentary Committee pre-budget hearings, Dryden Continue reading Submissions to Parliamentary Committee pre-budget hearings, Dryden

Letter to the Minister of Labour: “Not on the backs of injured workers?”

Letter questions recent WSIB announcement that there will be no employer premium rate increases for 2014 while at the same time ignoring the recommendation by their Arthurs’ Funding Review for full cost of living adjustment for injured workers. It also questions the…

Download Letter to the Minister of Labour: “Not on the backs of injured workers?” Continue reading Letter to the Minister of Labour: “Not on the backs of injured workers?”