Workers' compensation

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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What injured workers need: a community response

December 9, 2024

“A community response to WSIB’s $2.5 billion gift to employers” . There is no surplus until there is full compensation: the recent round of reckless payouts to employers must be cancelled until every injured worker’s basic needs are met. The demands in…

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ONIWG-RAC submission to pre-budget hearings

January 31, 2024

Presentation to the Ontario Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings in Thunder Bay focuses on cost-shifting from the WSIB to provincial coffers and the financial impacts of the current workers’ compensation system.…

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ONIWG letter re New Years’ resolutions

January 23, 2024

“New Years Resolutions” for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Minister of Labour collected from injured workers and their allies make clear that changes are urgently needed to have Ontario’s workers compensation system serve their needs better and more justly.…

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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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Legal and adjudication principles still in place

March 13, 2023

Most if not all of these principles come from the humanitarian philosophy of the original compensation law. They are still in the law today BUT, they are not fully or often not partially applied by a WSIB that “looks to deny”: remedial…

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

January 10, 2022

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…

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

November 30, 2021

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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