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Home / Blog / Actions & Campaigns / Thunder Bay injured workers tell panel how minimum wage & deeming a bad combination

Thunder Bay injured workers tell panel how minimum wage & deeming a bad combination

October 19, 2013

“Minimum wage discussion in Thunder Bay” (NetNewsLedger, Oct. 19, 2103)
Greg Snider and Steve Mantis of the Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group addressed the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel. While supporting an increase in the minimum wage pegged to inflation on an annual basis, they detailed the unintended and disastrous impact for permanently injured workers unless the WSIB / government eliminates deeming and uses instead actual wage loss in calculating benefits. The presentation spoke of current levels of poverty among injured workers, the erosion of their benefits and the need to implement recommendations from the recent Funding Review on the restoration of indexation – a return to fair and just compensation based on the Meredith principles.

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