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.

Letter to Board President on the narcotics strategy

March 16, 2010 by Bright Lights Injured Workers' Group

Letter to the WSIB President asks why the Board is refusing to respect the pain treatment their doctors prescribe and provides for no alternative therapy?…

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Are oral hearings further threatened by the KPMG Value for Money Audit?

June 26, 2009 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Letter strongly disagrees with KPMG Audit of the Appeal System Practice and Procedures suggestion that oral hearings, already undervalued, should be further restricted. The right to be heard by the decision maker is the most highly valued principle of natural justice; an…

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Queen’s Park – 26th annual Injured Workers’ Day

June 1, 2009 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG again calls on the government to end injured worker poverty by bringing in full COLA and eliminating deeming; to extend the Act’s coverage to all workers; end Experience Rating; restore Appeals Tribunal independence.…

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Injured Workers and Poverty Survey 2009 : Impacts of workplace injury

June 1, 2009 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Is this what Justice Meredith envisioned? A study of the economic and social impacts of workplace injury and illness.…

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Impacts of workplace injury: key findings

June 1, 2009 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Stark statistics from the 2009 Injured workers and Poverty survey.…

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Workers’ income pre- and post-injury

June 1, 2009 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Chart showing impact of injury on annual personal income (from ONIWG 2009 Injured workers and poverty survey)…

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“The historic compromise”

June 1, 2009 by Injured Workers' History Project

In times of economic hardship, the historic tradeoff that Meredith negotiated is often conveniently forgotten. It is a compromise that underscores the fact that employers do not pay for the compensation system by themselves. Workers paid and continue to pay – by…

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Restoring full cost of living adjustment: facts and figures

June 1, 2009 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Paper challenges Board’s contention it is not in a financial position to commit to paying full COLA to benefits permanently – using WSIB’s own statistics on reduced average injured workers’ benefits (due to inflation); net refunds to employers and reduced premiums.…

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Poverty study released – Injured Workers’ Day rally

May 30, 2009 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Announcement of release of Injured Workers and Poverty Survey report on eve of Injured Workers’ Day vigil and rally.…

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Meredith’s principles

May 1, 2009 by Injured Workers' History Project

As head of the Royal Commission (1910-1913) charged with recommending a workers’ compensation system for Ontario, Sir William Meredith aimed to ensure a fair system – one that would prevent injured workers from falling into poverty, that did not unduly burden employers,…

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