Workers' compensation

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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Miracle at 200 Front St : a play

December 1, 2008

A magical glimpse of how a fair, just and effective workers’ compensation system could be……

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2007 – 2008 Injured workers annual report

October 1, 2008

Report to share news of injured workers’ events, action and research (sponsored by the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury).…

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A merry protest

December 1, 2006

Injured workers’ “Christmas Day of protest”, held annually since 1991, marks the ongoing struggle for justice. The Bulletin presents a Dickensian tale of their past, present and future.…

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Injured Workers’ Day

June 1, 2006

June 1, 1984 was the first injured workers’ day. But the naming of a day for injured workers did not come from the thin air. It came as a result of decades of struggle by injured workers for justice.…

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Making the system better: injured workers speak out on compensation and return to work issues in Ontario

January 1, 2001

Study explores the experiences of more than 300 injured workers living in southern Ontario in seeking compensation, treatment and recovery, return to work, daily life, impact of government policies.…

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