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.

Legal Aid cuts will reduce services to injured workers

June 14, 2019 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

The cut of 22% to IWC’s budget (retroactive to April 1st) means that the clinic will have to reduce staff and services that impact particularly disadvantaged groups, people with work-related disabilities, most of them permanent. Most of our clients struggle with mental…

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Injured workers rally against poverty and privatization

May 31, 2019 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Injured workers and supporters draw public attention to the WSIB practice of deeming with the cutting of benefits based on phantom jobs, and fears that the terms of the government’s announced review of WSIB may open the door to privatization.…

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Phantom jobs, Empty Pockets

May 22, 2019 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

What really happens to workers with work-acquired permanent injuries unable to get back to their jobs? Using WSIB’s own documents, the ONIWG report explores the poverty-creating effects of the Board’s practice of deeming and proposes solutions.…

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Letter re WSIB draft policy 17-01-10 on marijuana for medical purposes

February 7, 2019 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC’s letter regrets the Board’s lack of consultation in the development of the cannabis policy and identifies key concerns on its restrictions that should be further considered.…

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Submissions to Parliamentary Committee pre-budget hearings, Dryden

January 21, 2019 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Presentation by Steve Mantis to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings addresses the growing income inequality, its negative impacts on a democratic society, and how austerity cuts have hurt injured workers. The attached supplementary submission discusses the development…

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What every injured worker needs to know: a guide for navigating the WSIB process