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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.

Submission to the Changing Workplaces Review on the Interim Report

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

In a second submission, IWC calls on the Special Advisors to reject options that will introduce more precarity to Ontario’s labour market and instead recommend legislative changes to protect migrant workers, who are particularly vulnerable to abuse……

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UN Convention on the Rights of People with a Disability (CRPD): ONIWG Submission

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Submission focuses on systemic barriers (including WSIB practices of deeming and experience rating) encountered by injured workers and workers with disabilities when trying to maintain employment following workplace injury or illness. Referencing Articles 27 and 28 of the CRPD, ONIWG recommends a…

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WSIBs principle of Better at Work contravenes Time to Heal and WSI legislation

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

The purpose of this letter is to engage the Government and the WSIB in a conversation about their mistaken and harmful philosophy promoting “immediate” return to work, rather than “early and safe” return to work based on an individual’s situation ….…

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Re Appeal time limits – Workplace Safety and Insurance Act

by Ellen R. Lipes Gary Newhouse Michael S. Green Peter Bird

Time limits on appeals, first introduced into the system with Bill 99, have added unnecessary complexity that adversely affects injured workers’ access to justice – especially those with modest education or for whom English is a second language – and proves a…

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Injured workers demonstrate in 7 cities, deliver open letter to WSIB and Parliamentarians to demand better healthcare from WSIB

by IAVGO Community Legal Clinic Injured Workers Action for Justice

On June 10, 2016, injured workers and their supporters are holding a province-wide Day of Action to deliver an open letter endorsed by over 140 organizations and individuals, as well as thousands of postcards signed by supporters, calling for changes at WSIB…

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WSIB misuse of IWH update on “Adequacy of Workers’ Compensation Benefits in Ontario”

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Letter to the Premier regrets that the Board is ignoring the real message: why do only 48% of injured workers return to work after injury and replace over time their pre-injury earnings? The study data goes only to 2008 – before the…

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Workers concerns downplayed and misrepresented by Rate Framework Consultation

by Experience Rating Working Group

Letter to the WSIB Chair protests the Consultation’s virtual dismissal of worker-side concerns submitted, with considerable time and effort, by injured worker groups, labour and advocates.…

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Commentary on Bill 163 supporting Ontario’s First Responders’ Act

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Clinic’s submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy welcomes the assistance the presumptive amendment provides to first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also makes recommendations on addressing more broadly the under-compensation of work-related mental health disabilities.…

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