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Home / Blog / Benefits / Properly commemorating the National Day of Mourning?

Properly commemorating the National Day of Mourning?

May 1, 2014

After attending the annual Hamilton ceremony to remember those who died from workplace injuries or illnesses, Monique Taylor (NDP – Hamilton Mountain) made a statement in the Assembly today on the need for workers to be properly protected and, if injured on the job, “not assigned to a life of poverty”.

The MPP called on the government to kill the WSIB draft policies that would systematically blame workers’ injuries on pre-existing conditions [].

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