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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-RAC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

While supporting the Bill’s introduction of an additional indexing factor for workers’ compensation benefits, the submission proposes additional measures to address injured worker poverty: adjusting the WSIB Loss of Retirement Income so it equals the losses in contributions to the Canada Pension…

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ONIWG-RAC submission to pre-budget hearings

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Presentation to the Ontario Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings in Thunder Bay focuses on cost-shifting from the WSIB to provincial coffers and the financial impacts of the current workers’ compensation system.…

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ONIWG-RAC letter to Minister of Labour re Bill 149

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Followup to letter of Nov. 23, 2023. ONIWG encourages the Minister to amend the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act provisions in Bill 149, Working for Workers Act Four, by increasing the percentage of of the Loss of Retirement so it…

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Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Virtual presentation to the Parliamentary Committee by Steve Mantis focuses on 3 issues: the growing gap of income inequality in Ontario (and Canada); the negative impact that is having on our democratic society that includes the reduction in public services; to alert…

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Workers’ compensation: morality versus the business case

by Dana Howse Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Plain language summary by Dana Howse of her doctoral thesis ‘Injured Workers’ Moral Engagement in the Compensation System: The Social Production of Problematic Claiming Experience’  with commentary by ONIWG RAC.…

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