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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.

ONIWG: Scrap the age cap on workers’ compensation benefits for older injured workers

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG press release calls out age discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation legislation that gives injured or ill workers access to LOE benefits only until age 65 or for a maximum of two years if they experience injury or illness at age 63…

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IWC submission to WSIB consultation on independent living policies phase 2

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Given the far-reaching scope of the review of the Board’s Independent Living policies and their potential impact, IWC submits that they require further in-person/online consultations with stakeholders, especially injured and ill workers, who will be the ones directly impacted by these policy…

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IWC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission prepared for IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy (Feb. 12) comments on proposed changes (benefit indexation, occupational disease reform) to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act in Schedule 4 of Bill 149, the Working for Workers Four Act.…

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ODRA submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

by Occupational Disease Reform Alliance

Submission prepared for ODRA presentation Feb. 13 to the the Standing Committee on Social Policy draws attention to what is missing in Bill 149. While supporting addition of an esophageal cancer presumption for firefighters, the Alliance details why “such piecemeal provisions do…

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ONIWG-RAC submission to the Standing Committee on Bill 149

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

While supporting the Bill’s introduction of an additional indexing factor for workers’ compensation benefits, the submission proposes additional measures to address injured worker poverty: adjusting the WSIB Loss of Retirement Income so it equals the losses in contributions to the Canada Pension…

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ONIWG-RAC submission to pre-budget hearings

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Presentation to the Ontario Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings in Thunder Bay focuses on cost-shifting from the WSIB to provincial coffers and the financial impacts of the current workers’ compensation system.…

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ONIWG-RAC letter to Minister of Labour re Bill 149

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Followup to letter of Nov. 23, 2023. ONIWG encourages the Minister to amend the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act provisions in Bill 149, Working for Workers Act Four, by increasing the percentage of of the Loss of Retirement so it…

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OLCWCN letter to the Minister of Labour re Bill 149

by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

The Network proposes amendments to schedule 4 of the Working for Workers Four Act that would decrease the poverty of injured workers: restore the Loss of Earnings benefit rate to 90% of net pre-injury earnings; restore the WSIB’s contribution to the Loss…

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ONIWG media release: A serious Halloween – 110 years of workers’ compensation law

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. He set up a system that was humanitarian and…

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