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.

How to assist injured workers – a guide for physicians in Ontario

April 8, 2015 by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

Most cases turn on medical evidence. Guide details how doctors can help ensure injured workers do not lose benefits to which they are entitled.…

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Comment aider les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés – un guide pour les médecins en Ontario

April 8, 2015 by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

La plupart des dossiers dépendent de la preuve médicale. Sans l’aide du médecin, les travailleuses et travailleurs blessés pourraient perdre leurs prestations.…

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Backgrounder – Experience rating

February 28, 2015 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Experience rating (ER), a financial incentive program for employers used by the WSIB to promote occupational health and safety, is not achieving its goals but instead hurts injured workers in many ways. Employer resources are diverted from workplace safety improvement towards claims…

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Submission on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan

February 6, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG suggests ways for the ORPP to avoid design flaws of the Canada Pension Plan that might unfairly reduce an injured worker’s retirement benefit…

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What do injured workers want? Platform for Change summary

January 25, 2015 by

Vision document for what the Ontario’s workers compensation system should look like. 2013 draft revision (prepared for the Meredith Conference) of the blueprint collaboratively created by the injured worker and labour community and endorsed in 2004 by the Ontario Network of Injured…

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Injured workers denounce $400,000 bonus to WSIB President and CEO

January 19, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Despite widespread opposition, I. David Marshall has been re-appointed for 2 years and is in line to receive a bonus while injured workers’ benefits are being cut in real terms by the meagre cost of living adjustments they will receive.…

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Letter re Re-appointment of I. David Marshall

January 16, 2015 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Letter to Premier on the betrayal injured workers feel at the extended appointment of WSIB President who has made the Board an institution that is hostile and contemptuous towards injured workers. ONIWG asks why the secrecy and lack of transparency about the…

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