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Experiences, impacts and service needs of injured workers in the WSIB process – research brief

The purpose of this research, led by Dr Rebecca Scharfe and funded by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, was to describe the experiences and mental health needs of injured and ill Northwestern Ontario workers in the WSIB process, in order to promote…

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Letter to the WSIB President re: Black mental health and COVID-19

Letter to the WSIB President on the group’s support  of the government’s Bill 178 which recognizes black mental health awareness specifically and that provision of health care service should be culturally appropriate. As such, WOI requests the WSIB to put together a…

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Coalition letter re WSIB’s discrimination against workers with mental injuries

Letter by a coalition of injured workers, community legal clinics, private bar lawyers, and doctors calls on the Premier to take urgent action on the new WSIB policy on mental stress which will put workers with mental injuries in Ontario in a…

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Submissions to the WSIB Draft Mental Stress Policy Consultation

Legal clinic endorses recommendations of the Ontario Federation of Labour‘s submission, and outlines IWC’s principal concerns: overly narrow definition of “chronic mental stress” and “workplace bullying”; added discriminatory barriers to approval and access to care, that set a higher bar for…

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Re Consultation on Draft Traumatic and Chronic Mental Stress Policy

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

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

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

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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