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Letter to WSIB: Impact of minimum wage increase on injured workers’ benefits
Letter to WSIB President urges a fair approach to the review of LOE benefits so that minimum wage increases are not used to reduce the benefits of unemployed injured workers who have been “deemed“.
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IWC submission re WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation
Submission questions consultation objective of redistributing surplus funds to employers when it is injured workers and their benefits that were sacrificed to eliminate the unfunded liability in the first place and achieve the resulting surplus funding. While the Speer-Dykeman report refused to look at the history of the unfunded liability and who paid for it, […]
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ONIWG submission on WSIB Insurance Fund Surplus Distribution Model Consultation
In its response to the Ministry of Labour’s consultation on how the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) should distribute “surplus” funds, ONIWG details the legislative obligations to injured workers that must first be fully and properly met. Elimination of the unfunded liability (UL) should never have fallen on the backs of injured workers: all […]
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IWC Submission re PSW/DSW Coverage Consultation
The submission urges mandatory WSIB coverage for all employers of Persons Support Workers (PSWs) and Developmental Support Workers (DSWs) who, as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, care for some the most vulnerable Ontarians. IWC has long advocated for the expansion of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act to cover all employments, proposed but not implemented […]
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Submission to the CRPD for a General Comment on Article 27 (work & employment)
ONIWG’s comments to the consultation by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes the need for follow-up reporting on employment outcomes of work injury compensation claimants with long-term work-acquired disabilities; humane & dignified treatment in the workers’ compensation system; recognition that income security for persons with work-acquired injury is a fundamental […]
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Deputation regarding Bill 238 (WSIB COVID relief)
Presentation to the Standing Committee on General Government by Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic on behalf of the OLCWCN addresses Bill 238 which caps WSIB premiums for large employers. Deputation proposes three better uses of a WSIB COVID relief bill that would help injured workers: presumption for frontline workers; a supplement to those with permanent […]
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IWC Submission to Temporary Help Agency Consultation
Temp agency workers do the most dangerous work with the least protection and with lower wages and benefits. IWC urges the government to make client companies of temp help agencies rather than the agencies themselves liable for WSIB premiums based on injuries, accidents and deaths of their temp agency workers. As it stands claims costs […]
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IWC Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy re Bill 161
IWC submission on proposed changes to legal aid in the omnibus Smarter and Stronger Justice Act addresses access to justice issues, decision-making authority, the role of community boards in determining pressing local needs, clinic funding …
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ONIWG oral presentation on Bill 161
In oral presentation to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on changes to the Legal Aid Services Act in Bill 161, Smarter and Stronger Justice Act, ONIWG speaks to concerns on the Bill’s language on purpose, issues of fee-for-service, loss of community control…
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Letter to the WSIB President re: Black mental health and COVID-19
Letter to the WSIB President on the group’s support of the government’s Bill 178 which recognizes black mental health awareness specifically and that provision of health care service should be culturally appropriate. As such, WOI requests the WSIB to put together a task force mandated to take the necessary steps and begin the process of […]
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