Publications Collection

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.

InjuredWorkerCast #2: Work & weather

February 13, 2025 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

In Episode 2 of InjuredWorkerCast, a podcast series produced by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic, IWC Lawyer Tebasum Durani talks to an injured worker, OFL President Laura Walton, and MPP Peter Tabuns about the dangers that workers who must be outside face…

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InjuredWorkerCast #1 : Employer ‘rebates’

December 19, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Episode 1 of the IWC podcast series features a conversation between Tebasum Durani and John McKinnon, lawyers at IWC. John and Tabasum discuss how Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is funded, why it is funded that way, and also a controversial…

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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

June 19, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

February 9, 2024 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission prepared for IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Feb. 12) comments on proposed changes (benefit indexation, occupational disease reform) to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act in Schedule 4 of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act.…

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IWC submission on changes to WSIB Appeals Practices & Procedures document

August 26, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC makes recommendations to the Consultation on Changes to the ASD (Appeals Services Division) Practice and Procedures document, a consultation contemporaneous with the ongoing appeals consultation on the KPMG value for money report and the WSIAT consultation on its appeals process…. The…

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IWC submission re WSIB consultation process on changes to the appeals system

July 21, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission addresses the lack of true consultation with those most affected – injured workers – on the major changes proposed and erosion of the right to appeal, based on recommendations of the KPMG Value for Money Audit of the dispute resolution and…

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Complaint to the Ombudsman regarding WSIB drastically reducing time to appeal

April 25, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Following a community consultation, Thunder Bay injured workers group and IWC call for a meeting with the Ombudsman to address WSIB response to key recommendations made by the KPMG Value for Money Audit of the appeal system, in particular the proposed drastic…

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IWC submission on WSIB’s draft policy on communicable illnesses

March 28, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC supports the WSIB initiative to develop a policy for communicable illnesses but identifies a number of concerns, among which that it is highly restrictive, fails to apply the standard test for causation and the principle of individualized assessment.…

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Legal and adjudication principles still in place

March 13, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

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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IWC Submissionto WSIAT’s New Pre-Hearing Process Consultation

January 13, 2023 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC makes recommendations on the changes proposed by the Tribunal to reduce delays, urging instead the elimination of time limits, simplification of the process and forms.…

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