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Re: Social Assistance Review
Submission supports the campaign to end the clawback of the Ontario Child Benefit, and calls for monitoring to ensure injured workers are not being inappropriately transferred from the workers’ compensation system to social assistance.
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Follow-up of the submission to the Funding Review
After presenting their stories at the public hearing, the injured workers’ group details its concerns on benefit indexation, coverage and employer incentives.
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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review
Memo on background material for the Group’s presentation to the Review. The written submissions include selected letters by injured workers on the impact of previous Board measures to address the unfunded liability (Bill 165, Bill 99).
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Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review
Paper comments on five key issues of the Review. On the appropriate funding level, it notes “the view that the unfunded liability presents a crisis derives from the inappropriate use of private insurance company metrics to the evaluation of the health of the WSIB accident fund.”
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The “Meredith Principles” – economic or humanitarian?
Submission to the WSIB Funding Review details for the Chair, with direct reference to Meredith’s Commission hearings and report, the discussion and intent of the adopted recommendations on how the system would be funded.
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Presentation to the WSIB Funding Review
Detailed response and recommendations based on injured worker experiences and research; paper calls for the Chair to follow Meredith’s example and create a balanced vision of a workers’ compensation system, to look beyond the North American norm to European systems that have both better programs for injured workers and better health and safety performance.
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Submissions to the WSIB Funding Review
Compilation of four submissions (April 11, June 15, Aug 31, Nov. 18) to the review led by Harry Arthurs. While applauding the choice, IWC expresses concerns at the process, “brokerage politics”, and a manufactured financial crisis. Papers provide detailed commentary on unfunded liability and the 6 key issues (funding, premium rates, rate groups, employer incentives […]
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Experience rating : an addiction looking for a rationale?
Submission to the WSIB/WCB Funding Review details why the Working Group finds that experience rating prompts negative claims management behaviour by employers, produces harmful results for injured workers. and fundamentally works against improving occupational health and safety.
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Preliminary submissions on funding to the WSIB Funding Review
ONIWG asks why the review is not considering the issue of coverage, given the potential additional revenue from assessments if all workers were covered. The submission points out that if employer assessments had not been decreased, there would be no “financial crisis”; supports the move to a flat rate system and one rate group, integration […]
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Submissions to WSIB Interim Work Reintegration Policy consultation
While the new policies take some steps in the right direction, legal clinic details concerns that others are a giant step backwards – particularly in regard to the expansion of deeming and experience rating, stricter time limits and expenses.
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