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.

We demand: No cuts based on phantom jobs

September 10, 2017 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Workers’ Comp Is A Right campaign key demand of an end to deeming with its pretence that the injured worker has a job they do not actually have, with phantom wages an excuse to cut benefit payments. Injured workers’ loss of earning…

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Submission re Bill 148 “Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017”

July 21, 2017 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC supports Bill 148 as an important first step for vulnerable workers struggling with the effects of precarious and unstable work. The brief proposes solutions to addressing WSIB practice of deeming so injured workers with a permanent work-related disability will not be…

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re Workers’ compensation universal coverage

July 19, 2017 by Women of Inspiration

With approx. 29% of Ontario workers not covered, letter to the Minister of Labour asks his government to make workers’ compensation more inclusive, expanding coverage to industries not specifically named in the legislation (a list barely updated in the past 50 years),…

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Presentation on Bill 148 to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs

July 19, 2017 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

In his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on “Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017”, ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage…

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Re: Our support in Bill 148, Better Jobs Act, 2017

July 15, 2017 by Chinese Injured Workers' Group

Group fully supports the progressive changes in Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which provide protections for many new immigrants entering the labour force who, because of employment barriers, are often placed in jobs at minimum wage, physically demanding and involve…

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Submissions to the WSIB Draft Mental Stress Policy Consultation

July 7, 2017 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Legal clinic endorses recommendations of the Ontario Federation of Labour‘s submission, and outlines IWC’s principal concerns: overly narrow definition of “chronic mental stress” and “workplace bullying”; added discriminatory barriers to approval and access to care, that set a higher bar for…

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Re Consultation on Draft Traumatic and Chronic Mental Stress Policy

July 7, 2017 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

While supporting several draft provisions, ONIWG Submission details its concerns including failure to adequately address workplace sexual harassment; standards for entitlement different than those for physical injury; proposed distinctions between high- and low-stress jobs; legislative limits regarding employer decisions.…

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Fact sheet – Chart: Effects of WSIB’s deeming policy

June 30, 2017 by

The actual economic impact of injury on workers “deemed” by the WSIB, showing pre-injury income, net average earnings, loss of earning (LOE) benefit (85%), impact of deductions due to minimum wage increases, consequences for social support systems and the injured worker.…

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Backgrounder – Minimum wage and deeming

June 30, 2017 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

While raising the minimum wage in Ontario is centrally important for all workers, there is a dilemma for injured workers because of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming” – when the minimum wage goes up, injured worker benefits go down. The practice of…

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Avoiding disaster – Can you prevent the minimum wage increase hurting injured workers?

June 14, 2017 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG’s letter to the Minister of Labour welcomes the province’s increase in the minimum wage but warns that, unless the WSIB’s policy and practice of deeming is eliminated, this increase will hurt many permanently disabled workers by reducing their benefits.…

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