Workers' compensation

Revived Sir William Meredith Royal Commission Final Report

July 29, 2015

Report, subtitled “My Compensation Will End on My 65th Birthday When My Brain Injury Goes Away”, presents injured workers’ voices and an analysis by the two researchers of testimony from hearings held in 8 cities around the province to record the current…

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What do injured workers want? Platform for Change summary

January 25, 2015

Vision document for what the Ontario’s workers compensation system should look like. 2013 draft revision (prepared for the Meredith Conference) of the blueprint collaboratively created by the injured worker and labour community and endorsed in 2004 by the Ontario Network of Injured…

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Fact sheet – What do injured workers want

October 31, 2013

The four key demands of the injured workers movement, and key provisions from the 2004 Platform for Change document (summary of draft revision)…

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Platform for Change – draft revision

August 31, 2013

Draft revision prepared for discussion Meredith ‘No Half Measures Conference’ 2013, also presented at Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Revision of 2004 April 2004 Statement outlining what injured workers want in a just and fair compensation system, originally prepared for the…

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Workers’ compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers

January 1, 2013

Declaration on an all-out assault on the fundamental right to workers’ compensation, a system being designed to fail with a private-insurance approach that hurts injured workers.…

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Presentations to Agency review: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

July 4, 2012

Transcript of presentations by legal advocates and injured workers to the Standing Committee on Government Agencies which address changes to workers’ compensation policies and practices that attack fairness. These include increased claims denial, appeals process, cost-cutting on the backs of workers, deeming,…

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Re: Why the KPMG report on adjudication is so upsetting

December 13, 2011

Clinic details objections to a poorly-researched paper by the external consulting company that advocates disbanding the key tenets of Ontario’s workers compensation system.…

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KPMG compensation for dummies

December 5, 2011

Summary of consultant’s report recommendations that do further damage to injured workers’ rights and benefits; includes link to petition MPPs.…

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ONIWG members identify critical issues with WSIB practices

June 15, 2011

Recent consultations with ONIWG members highlight benefit cuts, expansion of experience rating, and independence of Funding Review as major concerns…

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Justice : speedily and humanely rendered

May 31, 2011

At a time when the funding of Ontario’s workers’ compensation is again under review, a look back at the Meredith Commission. In making difficult decisions on complex issues of who was to pay, how it was to be financed, how long benefits…

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