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.

Restoring full cost of living adjustments – who says we can’t afford it?

November 26, 2006 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Facts and figures show it is a myth that the Board has to reduce its unfunded liability before it can return to full COLA of injured workers’ benefits.…

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Winners and losers

November 26, 2006 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Only injured workers have been expected to tighten their belts. Winners: employers (average premiums & rebates); Board (salaries & assets); Losers: injured workers (benefit losses to inflation)…

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It’s time to act: injury should not mean poverty

November 26, 2006 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

A call on the government to restore full cost of living protection for compensation benefits.…

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The case for full cost of living adjustments for workers’ compensation

November 26, 2006 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

The legal and economic principles that support full COLA, as outlined in the Weiler report; William Meredith and Labour Ministry Bill Wrye on why justice demands it.…

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Injured workers demand McGuinty live up to his promise to protect worker benefits from inflation

November 20, 2006 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

The cost of living has risen 23.1% in the last ten years. While injured workers have received an increase of only 2.8% in that time, employers are paying 1984 prices.…

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Carol McGregor: injured worker advocate

September 25, 2006 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Tribute on the death of an esteemed IWC staff member and activist, who will also be sadly missed in many communities, family, legal clinics, injured workers, disability rights organizations, the labour movement, fellow GO train commuters….…

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Injured Workers’ Day

June 1, 2006 by Injured Workers' History Project

June 1, 1984 was the first injured workers’ day. But the naming of a day for injured workers did not come from the thin air. It came as a result of decades of struggle by injured workers for justice.…

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Submission to the WSIB/WCB Consultation on Early and Safe Return to Work policies

January 1, 2006 by IWC Community Legal Clinic

While supporting the intent to address problems with the self-reliance model and discussion paper’s recognition of the need for time to heal, the IWC brief points to weaknesses arising from the complex and contradictory language of the document and inappropriate assumptions, goals…

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Injured workers going to the Supreme Court of Canada

December 5, 2002 by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG has been given standing as an intervenor in a case that will, among other issues, consider whether workers’ compensation boards should treat chronic pain disability in the same manner as other workplace injuries and disease.…

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Making the system better: injured workers speak out on compensation and return to work issues in Ontario

January 1, 2001 by Injured Worker Participatory Research Project

Study explores the experiences of more than 300 injured workers living in southern Ontario in seeking compensation, treatment and recovery, return to work, daily life, impact of government policies.…

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