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.

Letter to WSIB Chair re Benefits Policy Review

February 11, 2014 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Proposed policy changes would effectively remove the “thin skull” common law principle that Ontario’s workers’ compensation act specifically incorporated – based on Meredith’s recommendations – as a fair protection for injured workers. ONIWG calls on the Chair to abandon these draft policies.…

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Re: Disregarding Harry Arthurs’ recommendations for injured workers

February 6, 2014 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Letter calls on the Premier to implement Arthurs’ Report recommendations on full cost of living adjustments.…

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Letter to the WSIB Chair re Draft benefits policies

February 6, 2014 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Letter protests both the consultation process and the draft policies which will solidify a major shift in WSIB decision-making; to cut costs workplace injuries will be systematically blamed on pre-existing conditions.…

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Letter to the WSIB Chair re proposed changes to benefits policies

February 3, 2014 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Letter calls for withdrawal of the proposed policies which disregard all that was said and learned in the recent consultations and appear solely designed to implement reductions in benefits proposed by the KPMG Review.…

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WSIAT draft practice directions – surveillance evidence

November 27, 2013 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

The harm caused by surveillance and the threat of surveillance, and its antitherapeutic effects in a social welfare scheme, outweighs any limited probative value it may have. Paper outlines concerns and recommendations.…

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How far does an injured worker have to go to get a fair hearing?

November 14, 2013 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

72-year-old injured worker Jimmy Velgakis begins a second hunger strike outside the WSIB offices to get a fair decision based on the merits and justice of his case (for a back injury). Despite promises made at the time of his 2011 hunger…

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Submission to the 2013 Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy

October 4, 2013 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board’s austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers’ poverty – forcing them onto taxpayer-funded social assistance,…

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Platform for Change – draft revision

August 31, 2013 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Draft revision prepared for discussion Meredith ‘No Half Measures Conference’ 2013, also presented at Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference, June 2, 2015. Revision of 2004 April 2004 Statement outlining what injured workers want in a just and fair compensation system, originally prepared for the…

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Letter to the Minister of Labour: “Not on the backs of injured workers?”

July 18, 2013 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Letter questions recent WSIB announcement that there will be no employer premium rate increases for 2014 while at the same time ignoring the recommendation by their Arthurs’ Funding Review for full cost of living adjustment for injured workers. It also questions the…

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Re [Harry Arthurs’ recommendations on the unfunded liability]

July 17, 2013 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Despite recommendations of the Funding Review report, the government has not implemented rate increases or full cost-of living adjustments of benefits.…

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