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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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Letter to the Minister of Labour on Employer assessments
After Board announces no increases in employer assessments, group asks why the Funding Review recommendations on these and full indexation of benefits are being ignored.
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Re [Harry Arthurs’ recommendations on the unfunded liability]
Despite recommendations of the Funding Review report, the government has not implemented rate increases or full cost-of living adjustments of benefits.
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Re Downside risk on new Appeals Readiness Form
Letter to the Fair Practices Commission recommending removal of the reference to downside risk in order to end its chilling effect on injured workers seeking to appeal.
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