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Recent submissions, reports, guides and other documents developed by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, and other groups and advocates from the injured worker community. Additional materials can be accessed through the IWC Library.

ONIWG letter re Temporary Employment Agency rate setting

June 29, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG states its position that the consultation is unnecessary and that the WSIB should implement the new rate setting framework for Temporary Employment Agencies (TEA) that was to be introduced in 2020……

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ONIWG: WSIB providing a financial bonanza to employers while injured workers continue to get short-changed

June 14, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

On June 6 the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board announced another financial handout to employers while underpaying thousands of injured workers by misapplying the law on cost-of-living adjustments and failing to increase wage-loss benefits to 90%.…

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ONIWG-RAC: Letter to WSIB re claim suppression and abandoned claims

June 2, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Letter calls on the WSIB President and CEO to meet with ONIWG regarding solutions to longstanding concerns over claims suppression, non-reporting and abandoned claims.…

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ONIWG: response to WSIB reply on 2022 Cost-of-living adjustment

May 25, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

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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ONIWG: The WSIB’s annual indexing rate / cost-of-living adjustment rip-off for 2022

May 10, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Annual indexing is supposed to protect injured workers against the effects of inflation over time by gradually increasing injured workers’ wage-loss benefits. Presentation to the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers’ Tuesday meeting discusses the purpose, the law and impact of WSIB’s…

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ONIWG: WSIB short-changes injured workers with 2022 cost-of-living adjustment

April 12, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) calls on Premier Ford to to meet with ONIWG and to instruct the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to properly apply the law and WSIB policy in determining the annual cost-of-living adjustment……

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ONIWG letter to WSIB re inflation indexing

April 5, 2022 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Letter asks the President of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to use the Statistics Canada formulation (4.7%) rather than the 2.7% cost of living adjustment the WSIB has given injured workers.…

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IWC submission re draft occupational disease framework

February 28, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission urges that the WSIB respect Meredith’s concept that occupational disease should be put on “the same footing” as workplace accidents, and that the WSIB Policy framework should adopt the same evidentiary standard of “Significant contributing factor” in order to bring some…

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IWC submission to the pre-budget consultation

January 25, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission draws the Committee’s attention to the significant revenue leakage from the provincial coffers caused by Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claim suppression. In particular this revenue leakage impacts health care and social assistance, budget areas already stressed by the COVID-19…

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IWC Submission re Naloxone in the Workplace Consultation

January 14, 2022 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC welcomes and supports efforts to increase workplace safety, including access to naloxone to reduce the risk of deaths caused by opioid overdoses. The Clinic also urges that people who use opioids are not demonized in this review – many workers have…

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