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.

From Experience Rating to Rating Experience

October 1, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG Submission to the WSIB Rate Framework Consultation expresses disappointment, given the impact of experience rating on injured workers, that the proposal is to move from a one type of experience rating to another – in a way that entrenches employer incentives…

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Bright Lights submission on Rate Framework

October 1, 2015 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Bright Lights believes that the proposed rate framework is still an experience rating system, and does nothing to address the concerns outlined in ONIWG’s submission. Includes a collection of stories about how experience rating has affected some of the group’s members, and…

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Letter re Doctor fired over medical opinion

October 1, 2015 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

With reference to the Toronto Star Sep. 23 article, Bright Light’s letter applauds the medical consultant who refused to change her medical opinion and oppose the claim of an injured worker. Given the frequency of WSIB medical reports opposing claims, the Group…

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IWC submissions to the Changing Workplaces Review

September 18, 2015 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Supplementary to oral presentation made to the Special Advisors, this written submission continues to ask that the experience and perspective of injured workers be taken into account in reforming the employment standards regime. The submission’s recommendations therefore address a focus on health…

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Presentation to Changing Workplaces Review

September 11, 2015 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Oral presentation describes how injured workers can fall through the cracks of employment legislation, including the Employment Standards Act, intended to protect them. The deputation before the Special Advisors explains also how other important employment laws such as the Workplace Safety and…

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Letter to WSIB Chair on downplaying poverty

September 2, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG objection to positive spin being put by the Board on IWH study “Final report on work injury and poverty” details how the WSIB’s characterization of the data and analysis contained in the study is either inaccurate or disingenuous.…

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Letter to the Minister of Labour on the 72 month lock-in

August 6, 2015 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Injured workers’ group thanks the Minister for his decision to not remove the lock-in, and for listening to what injured workers had to say. They urge him to continue to take a strong stand on this issue (and turn his attention to…

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Revived Sir William Meredith Royal Commission Final Report

July 29, 2015 by Carolann Elston Robert Storey

Report, subtitled “My Compensation Will End on My 65th Birthday When My Brain Injury Goes Away”, presents injured workers’ voices and an analysis by the two researchers of testimony from hearings held in 8 cities around the province to record the current…

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Human rights of injured workers and covert surveillance by WSIB

June 24, 2015 by ARCH Disability Law Centre Ivana Petricone

Presentation to the Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Community legal clinics, ONIWG and OWA mount a rights-based legal challenge of the “red flags” used by Ontario’s Workers’ Compensation Board, preparing a statement of facts for the Ontario Human Rights Commissioner. Following…

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Justice Bike Ride – Press release

May 22, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Injured workers take on a 600 km bike ride to draw attention to the dismantling of the workers’ compensation system! The ride will take them from Ottawa to Toronto – finish line will be Queen’s Park on June 1st for the Injured…

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