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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.

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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Ontario’s injured worker community stands in solidarity with the movement against “austerity” measures proposed by KPMG

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG reminds the government of the Historic Compromise in calling for it to reject Value-for-Money Audit report that would see cost-cutting on the backs of injured workers – while assessments paid by employers are about 22% lower than they were 15 years…

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KPMG Report on WSIB Adjudication: concerns about injured workers paying for WSIB unfunded liability

by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Letter to the Premier, in light of KPMG recommendations which seem aimed at transferring the cost off employers, reminds him of promise not to deal with unfunded liability on the backs of injured workers.…

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