Meredith

The Meredith Act (Workers’ Compensation Act, 2025)

February 10, 2025

Proposed legislation developed by the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group, along with ONIWG and allies, that is intended to replace Ontario’s current Workplace Safety and Insurance Act and make changes to ensure the fair compensation envisioned by the Meredith…

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TB&DIWSG media release: Meredith Act

February 8, 2025

Announcement of a media conference in Thunder Bay on the release of the Meredith Act, proposed legislation to replace the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.…

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ONIWG media release: A serious Halloween – 110 years of workers’ compensation law

October 30, 2023

On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. He set up a system that was humanitarian and…

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The “Meredith Principles” – economic or humanitarian?

April 18, 2011

Submission to the WSIB Funding Review details for the Chair, with direct reference to Meredith’s Commission hearings and report, the discussion and intent of the adopted recommendations on how the system would be funded.…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 13, 2011

Detailed response and recommendations based on injured worker experiences and research; paper calls for the Chair to follow Meredith’s example and create a balanced vision of a workers’ compensation system, to look beyond the North American norm to European systems that have…

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Letter to the WSIB President re our concerns pertaining to WSIB future direction

October 15, 2010

The group calls for injured worker involvement in the Funding Review process and an assurance the Review has a proper understanding of the “historic compromise”.…

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Meredith’s principles

May 1, 2009

As head of the Royal Commission (1910-1913) charged with recommending a workers’ compensation system for Ontario, Sir William Meredith aimed to ensure a fair system – one that would prevent injured workers from falling into poverty, that did not unduly burden employers,…

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