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Brief to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2013/2014 Legislative Review
The purpose of the AODA is to is to remove existing barriers, and prevent the introduction of new ones. For injured workers, however, even with both the Ontario Human Rights Code and AODA in place, new barriers are being introduced by the WSIB that further hurt injured workers: Deeming is a barrier to employment for […]
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Re Stopping the WSIB benefits policies scandals
Open letter calls on Premier Wynne to not allow the WSIB to change the law governing workers’ compensation in Ontario by way of internal policy change. A massive attack on the rights of injured workers, the proposed policies change the very foundation of the system established by Sir William Meredith and are already being implemented. […]
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Letter re WSIB draft benefits policies
Lawyers’ letter to Premier Wynne protests the explicit attack on the rights of injured workers, calling for the withdrawal of draft policies which codify a massive cutback on benefits and are tantamount to a re-writing of the legislation.
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Letter to WSIB Chair re Benefits Policy Review
Proposed policy changes would effectively remove the “thin skull” common law principle that Ontario’s workers’ compensation act specifically incorporated – based on Meredith’s recommendations – as a fair protection for injured workers. ONIWG calls on the Chair to abandon these draft policies.
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Letter to the WSIB Chair re Draft benefits policies
Letter protests both the consultation process and the draft policies which will solidify a major shift in WSIB decision-making; to cut costs workplace injuries will be systematically blamed on pre-existing conditions.
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Re: Disregarding Harry Arthurs’ recommendations for injured workers
Letter calls on the Premier to implement Arthurs’ Report recommendations on full cost of living adjustments.
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Letter to the WSIB Chair re proposed changes to benefits policies
Letter calls for withdrawal of the proposed policies which disregard all that was said and learned in the recent consultations and appear solely designed to implement reductions in benefits proposed by the KPMG Review.
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WSIAT draft practice directions – surveillance evidence
The harm caused by surveillance and the threat of surveillance, and its antitherapeutic effects in a social welfare scheme, outweighs any limited probative value it may have. Paper outlines concerns and recommendations.
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Submission to the 2013 Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy
Since the IWC brief to the 2009 Strategy, the Board’s austerity measures with benefits cuts and increased claims denials have only increased injured workers’ poverty – forcing them onto taxpayer-funded social assistance,
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Letter to the Minister of Labour: “Not on the backs of injured workers?”
Letter questions recent WSIB announcement that there will be no employer premium rate increases for 2014 while at the same time ignoring the recommendation by their Arthurs’ Funding Review for full cost of living adjustment for injured workers. It also questions the media spin of the Board press release and the statistics purportedly showing injured […]
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