Workers' compensation

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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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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Presentation at the Health & Safety and WCB Conference

November 25, 2010

Address to the Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference focuses on major problems in Ontario’s system: experience rating; OH&S inspection; role of doctors, objective medical evidence and statistics in legal decisionmaking; actuaries; claims procedures – and whether judicial review, Charter are effective legal remedies.…

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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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Queen’s Park – 26th annual Injured Workers’ Day

June 1, 2009

ONIWG again calls on the government to end injured worker poverty by bringing in full COLA and eliminating deeming; to extend the Act’s coverage to all workers; end Experience Rating; restore Appeals Tribunal independence.…

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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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