Poverty

Media release: ONIWG seeks fair cost-of-living adjustment for injured workers

December 13, 2022

Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) is challenging the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) unreasonable calculation of the annual cost-of-living adjustment for 2022……

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Thunder Bay injured workers: Media advisory – International Day of Persons with Disabilities

December 1, 2022

On December 3rd, annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group will be holding a virtual media conference and hosting a gathering to share our stories, update the community of our…

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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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Submission to the CRPD for a General Comment on Article 27 (work & employment)

March 23, 2021

ONIWG’s comments to the consultation by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes the need for follow-up reporting on employment outcomes of work injury compensation claimants with long-term work-acquired disabilities; humane & dignified treatment in the workers’ compensation…

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Injured workers rally against poverty and privatization

May 31, 2019

Injured workers and supporters draw public attention to the WSIB practice of deeming with the cutting of benefits based on phantom jobs, and fears that the terms of the government’s announced review of WSIB may open the door to privatization.…

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Phantom jobs, Empty Pockets

May 22, 2019

What really happens to workers with work-acquired permanent injuries unable to get back to their jobs? Using WSIB’s own documents, the ONIWG report explores the poverty-creating effects of the Board’s practice of deeming and proposes solutions.…

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Letter to WSIB Chair on downplaying poverty

September 2, 2015

ONIWG objection to positive spin being put by the Board on IWH study “Final report on work injury and poverty” details how the WSIB’s characterization of the data and analysis contained in the study is either inaccurate or disingenuous.…

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Submission to the 2013 Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy

October 4, 2013

Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board’s austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers’ poverty – forcing them onto taxpayer-funded social assistance,…

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Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs pre-budget consultations

April 3, 2013

Group calls for implementation of Arthurs’ recommendations; discusses cost-shifting from employer to the individual and the public purse; permanent disability and injured worker poverty and unemployment.…

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Injured workers and poverty survey 2010: full report

March 1, 2012

Study, led by Bonnie Heath, surveys Ontario injured workers 2010-2011 on the economic, social and health impacts of work injury.…

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