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IWC Submission re Naloxone in the Workplace Consultation
IWC welcomes and supports efforts to increase workplace safety, including access to naloxone to reduce the risk of deaths caused by opioid overdoses. The Clinic also urges that people who use opioids are not demonized in this review – many workers have a well-managed and appropriate regime of pain killers which may well be the […]
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Thunder Bay DIWSG / ONIWG-RAC presentation to the pre-budget hearings
Virtual presentation to the Parliamentary Committee by Steve Mantis focuses on 3 issues: the growing gap of income inequality in Ontario (and Canada); the negative impact that is having on our democratic society that includes the reduction in public services; to alert the government about our challenge to the United Nations under the Convention on […]
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IWC Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs re Schedule 9, Bill 43 (deeming)
Submission focuses on the unintended consequences that the proposed minimum wage increase included in Schedule 9 in Bill 43 will have on injured workers as a result of the WSIB’s practice of “deeming“/”determining”. Three proposals for amendments to the Bill are outlined to rectify the issue.
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IWC submission to Standing Committee on Bill 27
The submission proposes legislative amendments to Schedule 6 of Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021, on the WSIB’s distribution of ‘surplus’ funds. Recommendations focus on the need to 1) incorporate in the formula for determining a surplus position an assessment first of gaps and inadequacies in services and programs, prioritizing restitution to injured workers […]
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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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