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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.

Injured workers’ “bake sale” against cuts to compensation

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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Submission to the Standing Committee regarding Bill 135

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding Schedule 21 of the Helping Ontario Families and Managing Responsibly Act which amends the WSIA by: adding a requirement for full funding of the workers’ compensation system, removing the requirement to…

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Securing our retirement future: Consultation with Ontarians

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission for the Federal-Provincial consultation on retirement income security addresses the need to increase the retirement pension under the Canada Pension Plan, require workers’ compensation boards to maintain contributions to the CPP for lost earnings from work-related disability, exclude all periods of…

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Presentation at the Health & Safety and WCB Conference

by Terence Ison

Address to the Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference focuses on major problems in Ontario’s system: experience rating; OH&S inspection; role of doctors, objective medical evidence and statistics in legal decisionmaking; actuaries; claims procedures – and whether judicial review, Charter are effective legal remedies.…

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Age-based discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation laws

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Presentation by John McKinnon to the Canadian Conference on Elder Law on age-based limitations to Ontario compensation benefits, introduced with the 1990 change to a wage-loss system; mandatory retirement and exclusion from the Human Rights Code.…

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