Health

Re Consultation on Draft Traumatic and Chronic Mental Stress Policy

July 7, 2017

While supporting several draft provisions, ONIWG Submission details its concerns including failure to adequately address workplace sexual harassment; standards for entitlement different than those for physical injury; proposed distinctions between high- and low-stress jobs; legislative limits regarding employer decisions.…

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Submissions to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs re Bill 127

May 15, 2017

Coalition of legal aid clinics, workers’ compensation lawyers, injured worker groups, doctors address provisions in amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act regarding chronic mental stress entitlement and the expansion of Board policy-making powers.…

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Letter to the Premier – Make workers compensation fair again

December 12, 2016

Letter asks the Premier to reconsider the austerity agenda that is impacting injured workers and calls for action on 4 major concerns: continued violation by WSIB of the Charter of Rights in its handling of chronic mental health claims; systemic disregard of…

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Workplace chronic mental stress claims in Ontario

November 15, 2016

With passage of Bill 99 (1998), the WSIB no longer accepts claims for mental stress conditions that emerge over time. Despite an Appeals Tribunal finding that it is unconstitutional and discriminatory to exclude chronic mental injuries, workers continue to be denied coverage,…

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Complaint to the Ombudsman of Ontario: WSIB Refusal to Compensate for Chronic Occupational Stress

November 9, 2016

A request for the Ombudsman to investigate the WSIB’s continued application of legislative provisions and policy that have been found unconstitutional and discriminate against workers suffering chronic occupational mental health disabilities.…

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Injured workers demonstrate in 7 cities, deliver open letter to WSIB and Parliamentarians to demand better healthcare from WSIB

June 10, 2016

On June 10, 2016, injured workers and their supporters are holding a province-wide Day of Action to deliver an open letter endorsed by over 140 organizations and individuals, as well as thousands of postcards signed by supporters, calling for changes at WSIB…

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Commentary on Bill 163 supporting Ontario’s First Responders’ Act

March 8, 2016

Clinic’s submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy welcomes the assistance the presumptive amendment provides to first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also makes recommendations on addressing more broadly the under-compensation of work-related mental health disabilities.…

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Commentary on the new WSIB “narcotics strategy”

March 18, 2010

In response to the new policy on restricting long acting narcotic pain killers, why the Board is not proposing alternative treatment but instead is leaving injured workers to fend for themselves…

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Letter to Board President on the narcotics strategy

March 16, 2010

Letter to the WSIB President asks why the Board is refusing to respect the pain treatment their doctors prescribe and provides for no alternative therapy?…

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