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.

Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review

April 27, 2011 by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

Paper comments on five key issues of the Review. On the appropriate funding level, it notes “the view that the unfunded liability presents a crisis derives from the inappropriate use of private insurance company metrics to the evaluation of the health of…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 27, 2011 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Memo on background material for the Group’s presentation to the Review. The written submissions include selected letters by injured workers on the impact of previous Board measures to address the unfunded liability (Bill 165, Bill 99).…

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The “Meredith Principles” – economic or humanitarian?

April 18, 2011 by Robert Storey

Submission to the WSIB Funding Review details for the Chair, with direct reference to Meredith’s Commission hearings and report, the discussion and intent of the adopted recommendations on how the system would be funded.…

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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review

April 13, 2011 by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers' Support Group

Detailed response and recommendations based on injured worker experiences and research; paper calls for the Chair to follow Meredith’s example and create a balanced vision of a workers’ compensation system, to look beyond the North American norm to European systems that have…

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Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review

April 11, 2011 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Compilation of four submissions (April 11, June 15, Aug 31, Nov. 18) to the review led by Harry Arthurs. While applauding the choice, IWC expresses concerns at the process, “brokerage politics”, and a manufactured financial crisis. Papers provide detailed commentary on unfunded…

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Experience rating : an addiction looking for a rationale?

April 8, 2011 by Experience Rating Working Group

Submission to the WSIB/WCB Funding Review details why the Working Group finds that experience rating prompts negative claims management behaviour by employers, produces harmful results for injured workers. and fundamentally works against improving occupational health and safety.…

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Preliminary submissions on funding to the WSIB Funding Review

April 5, 2011 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG asks why the review is not considering the issue of coverage, given the potential additional revenue from assessments if all workers were covered. The submission points out that if employer assessments had not been decreased, there would be no “financial crisis”;…

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Submissions to WSIB Interim Work Reintegration Policy consultation

February 15, 2011 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

While the new policies take some steps in the right direction, legal clinic details concerns that others are a giant step backwards – particularly in regard to the expansion of deeming and experience rating, stricter time limits and expenses.…

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Our response to Work Reintegration Policy

February 10, 2011 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Letter to the Board details what an effective and just Work Reintegration program should include.…

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Injured workers’ “bake sale” against cuts to compensation

December 8, 2010 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

At the 19th annual Christmas demonstration outside the Ministry of Labour, injured workers – among Ontario’s most vulnerable groups facing increased poverty and insecurity from benefit reductions due to inflation – wonder if they should hold a bake sale to fill the…

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