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Issues

100 years ago Meredith introduced Ontario’s public no-fault, non-adversarial workers’ compensation system. Today injured workers call on the WSIB/WCB and the government to respect the basic  principles and “historic compromise” , under which they gave up the right to sue employers in exchange for fair and timely compensation.  When policies are driven by “look to deny” cost-cutting rather than legal principles,  and “medicalized” decision-making blames age or pre-existing conditions rather than the impact of a work-related cause, our system seems increasingly to be run on the private insurance model – far from Meredith’s call for “full justice, no half-measures”.

In this section, find overviews, background and links to more information on current  issues of concern.

Updated April 7, 2020

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