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Commentary on the WSIB Framework for Policy Development and Renewal
IWC urges the Board to shape its policy also on the concept from the original purpose of Meredith’s workers’ compensation legislation: that it is remedial legislation. Legal clinic expresses concern at the process for policy development, evaluation and approval, and the emphasis placed on an undefined “financial responsibility” (cost cutting at injured workers’ expense?). Paper […]
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Letter re Workers’ compensation platforms
Letter (Nov. 2, 2010) to leaders of Ontario’s provincial parties, outlining changes and problems with funding and benefit levels in the workers’ compensation system and requesting publication of their policies; addresses deeming, inflation, Serious Injuries Program. Follow-up letter (Aug. 31, 2011) alerts them to the real significance of an innocuous-seeming change included in the Work […]
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Supplementary submission to the WSIB Funding Review
Response to the Marshall submissions, including the Nexus paper and Eckler models on funding levels. Through its emphasis on full pre‐funding of the system and claims cost based rate‐setting, the Marshall scheme threatens to undermine the goals of workers’ compensation as a public social insurance system with fair compensation and meaningful vocational rehabilitation.
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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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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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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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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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