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Presentation at the Health & Safety and WCB Conference
Address to the Joint OFL/ONIWG Conference focuses on major problems in Ontario’s system: experience rating; OH&S inspection; role of doctors, objective medical evidence and statistics in legal decisionmaking; actuaries; claims procedures – and whether judicial review, Charter are effective legal remedies.
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Who cares about injured workers today?
While employers are still protected from lawsuits, injured workers are increasingly without compensation or employment. Open letter outlines their key needs, at a time when the Board seems to be focusing on benefit reductions to attend to its finances.
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Age-based discrimination in Ontario’s workers’ compensation laws
Presentation by John McKinnon to the Canadian Conference on Elder Law on age-based limitations to Ontario compensation benefits, introduced with the 1990 change to a wage-loss system; mandatory retirement and exclusion from the Human Rights Code.
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Backgrounder: Why are injured workers expecting cuts?
Statements on the public record explain why injured workers see benefit cuts coming.
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Commentary on the new WSIB “narcotics strategy”
In response to the new policy on restricting long acting narcotic pain killers, why the Board is not proposing alternative treatment but instead is leaving injured workers to fend for themselves
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Restoring full cost of living adjustment: facts and figures
Paper challenges Board’s contention it is not in a financial position to commit to paying full COLA to benefits permanently – using WSIB’s own statistics on reduced average injured workers’ benefits (due to inflation); net refunds to employers and reduced premiums.
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Workers’ income pre- and post-injury
Chart showing impact of injury on annual personal income (from ONIWG 2009 Injured workers and poverty survey)
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Impacts of workplace injury: key findings
Stark statistics from the 2009 Injured workers and Poverty survey.
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Injured Workers and Poverty Survey 2009 : Impacts of workplace injury
Is this what Justice Meredith envisioned? A study of the economic and social impacts of workplace injury and illness.
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Bright Lights Presentation to WCB/WSIB Chair and President
Questions on how the economic downturn will affect the Board’s financial targets and unfunded liability; is the WCB also looking at policies and practices that recognize the impact recession will have on employment availability, already low, for injured workers?
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