While raising the minimum wage in Ontario is centrally important for all workers, there is a dilemma for injured workers because of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming” – when the minimum wage goes up, injured worker benefits go down. The practice of deeming – which bases workers’ compensation benefits on “deemed” or “phantom” jobs and earnings, rather than actual or real wage losses incurred by permanently disabled injured workers – is one of the WSIB’s more insidious mechanisms to cut people off benefits …
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