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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.

ONIWG-RAC submission to pre-budget hearings

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Presentation to the Ontario Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Economic Affairs pre-budget hearings in Thunder Bay focuses on cost-shifting from the WSIB to provincial coffers and the financial impacts of the current workers’ compensation system.…

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ONIWG-RAC letter to Minister of Labour re Bill 149

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups - Research Action Committee

Followup to letter of Nov. 23, 2023. ONIWG encourages the Minister to amend the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act provisions in Bill 149, Working for Workers Act Four, by increasing the percentage of of the Loss of Retirement so it…

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OLCWCN letter to the Minister of Labour re Bill 149

by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

The Network proposes amendments to schedule 4 of the Working for Workers Four Act that would decrease the poverty of injured workers: restore the Loss of Earnings benefit rate to 90% of net pre-injury earnings; restore the WSIB’s contribution to the Loss…

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ONIWG media release: A serious Halloween – 110 years of workers’ compensation law

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

On October 31st, while our children and grandchildren trick or treat, injured and ill workers will be remembering Chief Justice William Meredith’s report to the Ontario Legislature that created our workers’ compensation system. He set up a system that was humanitarian and…

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ONIWG letter to Minister re Cost of Living Adjustments

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

A recent Toronto Star article described how a WSIB coding error in calculating the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), went unnoticed for 20 years,  shortchanging more than 100,000 injured workers of $42 million. ONIWG’s letter to Minister Monte McNaughton details another situation where the…

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IWC submission on changes to WSIB Appeals Practices & Procedures document

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

IWC makes recommendations to the Consultation on Changes to the ASD (Appeals Services Division) Practice and Procedures document, a consultation contemporaneous with the ongoing appeals consultation on the KPMG value for money report and the WSIAT consultation on its appeals process…. The…

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ONIWG demands openness & fairness in consultation process that proposes sweeping changes

by Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

ONIWG demands changes to the undemocratic consultation process for gathering feedback on changes recommended by KMPG’s value for money audit of the dispute resolution and appeals system. The Group argues that not only is the timeframe unreasonably short, but thousands of injured…

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IWC submission re WSIB consultation process on changes to the appeals system

by IWC Community Legal Clinic

Submission addresses the lack of true consultation with those most affected – injured workers – on the major changes proposed and erosion of the right to appeal, based on recommendations of the KPMG Value for Money Audit of the dispute resolution and…

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OLCWCN Commentary re KPMG Value for Money Audit (VFMA) Dispute Resolution and Appeals Process

by Ontario Legal Clinics' Workers' Compensation Network

Letter to the WSIB Chair underscores that the auditor’s findings that make a number of errors which demonstrate a lack of understanding of Ontario’s workers’ compensation system. If adopted, the recommendations will negatively impact injured workers’ access to justice – many of…

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