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.

Workers’ compensation: justice not poverty for injured workers

January 1, 2013 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Declaration on an all-out assault on the fundamental right to workers’ compensation, a system being designed to fail with a private-insurance approach that hurts injured workers.…

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WSIB President earns bonus cutting injured workers’ benefits

December 15, 2012 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

FOI request reveals Board President is to receive, in addition to $400,000 annual salary, a bonus of up to $400,000 (payable at the end of five years) for achieving certain financial goals and objectives.…

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Health and safety rebate and surcharge incentive system harms injured workers, international experts agree

November 30, 2012 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

At international symposium held at the University of Toronto, ONWIG members heard experts affirm that abuse of injured workers is common within experience rating systems – and that these systems have little or no effect on improving workplace health and safety.…

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A review of WSIB case scenarios

November 15, 2012 by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

Presentation to the WSIB Benefits Policy Consultation discusses fallacies in the Board’s scenarios of “aggravation basis” and overcompensation, recurrences, permanent impairments; treatment of workers with degenerative conditions that is creating a windfall for employers; KPMG influence on proposed policies.…

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Submission to WSIB Benefits Policy Review

November 14, 2012 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Injured workers with real experience in dealing with the Board respond angrily to the case scenarios issued by the Board, stories carefully drafted to garner support for additional erosion of benefits rather than assist policy review. In the proposals, Group urges no…

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Submission to the WSIB 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 9, 2012 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC calls for legal discipline in Board policy and decisionmaking (i.e. adjudication in adherence with the law and legal principles rather than the current aggressive and “cost-effective” approach), and for consideration of institutional memory and historical perspective in adjudication (Meredith and Weiler…

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Comments on WSIB case scenarios – 2012 Benefits Policy Review

November 8, 2012 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Clinic hoped that looking at some real life scenarios would enlighten about the difficulty that WSIB adjudicators are having applying policy. However what the Board has provided are not case examples representative of a WSIB adjudicator’s caseload but fictional scenarios typical of…

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Submission to Jim Thomas WSIB Policy Consultation

October 29, 2012 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG submission details injured workers concerns: full coverage is excluded from scope of Benefits Policy review; role of KPMG report; need for proper understanding of Meredith principles and legal framework of workers’ compensation; use or misuse of scientific evidence; treatment of age…

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Letter to David Marshall on issues of concern

October 19, 2012 by Women of Inspiration

Letter to WSIB President follows up an earlier meeting and correspondence on problems experienced with the system…

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Submission re the proposed changes in the Appeals System

October 6, 2012 by Chinese Injured Workers' Group

Group questions why speeding up the system requires limiting their rights to oral hearings, why modernization requires complicating the current process, and why has the downside risk form been added? Submission includes their recommendations to make the appeals system more efficient.…

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