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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.

Presentations to Agency review: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Transcript of presentations by legal advocates and injured workers to the Standing Committee on Government Agencies which address changes to workers’ compensation policies and practices that attack fairness. These include increased claims denial, appeals process, cost-cutting on the backs of workers, deeming,…

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Re Ignoring Professor Arthurs’ quest for fairness for the injured

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

In open letter to the premier, ONIWG responds to the recently announced 2013/2014 cost of living adjustments of 0.5% which, being below the expected inflation rate, means a real reduction in benefits. This runs counter to Arthurs’ recommendation of full COLA.…

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WSIB by the numbers

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Recent statistics from WSIB publications show the Oct. 2011 recommendations in the KPMG report have already been implemented. These include 27.6% lower average long-term benefit, 31% fewer permanent (NEL) awards; retraining cut from 19 to 5 months; 200 Board staff cut …..…

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McGuinty’s choice of WSIB Chair called a betrayal of injured workers

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Response to the appointment of Elizabeth Witmer, former Minister of Labour under the Harris Government, whose reforms (including the draconian Bill 99) introduced private insurance practices into Ontario’s workers’ compensation and saw a resulting rise in poverty levels among injured workers…

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Submission re: KPMG Value for Money Audit (on claims adjudication and administration)

by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

Clinics’ Network critiques the KPMG report for providing a flawed analysis, exceeding the mandate of an independent value for money audit and making policy recommendations based on their misunderstanding of Ontario workers’ compensation law and legal principles. It calls on the Premier…

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Additional submission to Professor Harry Arthurs regarding indexation of benefits

by Ontario Federation of Labour Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

In applauding the provisional report’s statement that the restoration of full indexing is a matter of urgency and fundamental fairness, the organizations call for ongoing improvements to catch-up indexing and restitution of past losses through a corrective Friedland formula for annual adjustments.…

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