Documents are in PDF format but may be available in alternate formats on request. Recent press releases are available on Global Newswire
Backgrounder – Experience rating
Experience rating (ER), a financial incentive program for employers used by the WSIB to promote occupational health and safety, is not achieving its goals but instead hurts injured workers in many ways. Employer resources are diverted from workplace safety improvement towards claims management and suppression (discouraging the reporting of accidents and filing of workers’ claims). ER programs also fail in supporting successful return to work. Proposed changes look at insurance equity rather than the addressing the core problems with the program.Backgrounder – New WSIB benefits policies
A summary of the developments and funding/cost-cutting rationale leading up to the Board’s implementation of new benefits policies; with analysis of the general approach under decision makers ‘look to deny’ by questioning work relatedness every step of the way. The main way this is achieved is by repeatedly raising the issue of pre-existing conditions. Backgrounder discusses how these policies reject the legal principles (including the thin skull doctrine) and instead try to ‘medicalize’ the decision-making process through not only challenging causation but use of “expected recovery times” – rather than individualized assessment – as a tool to cut off benefits. (Originally published in Justice For Injured Workers Jan. 2015 issue).
Fact sheet – What do injured workers want
The four key demands of the injured workers movement, and key provisions from the 2004 Platform for Change document (summary of draft revision)
Injured workers and poverty
Key findings from the ONIWG Injured Workers and Poverty Survey 2010/2011.