Hurt at Work?📣Community Meeting for Injured Workers Rights

🚨📣 Hurt at Work?📣Community Meeting for Injured Workers RightsThursday February 1st, 2024 6:30PM – 9 PM OPSEU Offices, 326 Memorial Avenue Thunder Bay ON Workers Compensation was created to help Workers Injured or Sick from Work! Help restore the WSIB to founding principles.Hosted by the Thunder Bay & District injured Workers Support Group tbiwsg@gmail.com https://thunderbayinjuredworkers.comContinue reading Hurt at Work?📣Community Meeting for Injured Workers Rights

Upcoming event with: Workplace Health Without Borders

Webinar - July 12, 2023June 7 & 21, and July 12, 202311:00 a.m. GMT/UTC, 7:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight TimeHosts: Kevin Hedges, Alec Farquhar, WHWB International and Tuan Nguyen (WHWB US) Topic: Evaluating risk and preventing asbestos exposure– challenges, tools, and resourcesRegister here : https://whwb.org/coming-events/ The focus will be on technical issues around the identification, measurement … Continue reading Upcoming event with: Workplace Health Without Borders

[OHC] Press Conference & Fact Checker: Patients who have been extra-billed thousands of dollars in private clinics join us to call out Ford’s claims

Please review the following messages below to learn more about the real costs of "no extra costs" for privatized healthcare".  Do what you can whether it is a call to your MPP or a letter to the editor or join rallies or other actions to stop the privatization of our healthcare.  Ford and his cronies … Continue reading [OHC] Press Conference & Fact Checker: Patients who have been extra-billed thousands of dollars in private clinics join us to call out Ford’s claims

Ontario Expanding Cancer Coverage for Firefighters

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002778/ontario-expanding-cancer-coverage-for-firefighters News release March 3rd 2023 "When anybody is facing a work-related illness, we are here to help. Our team gets to work as quickly as possible to help people and this change will help us get started faster for firefighters and fire investigators with thyroid and pancreatic cancers. "- Jeffery LangPresident and CEO of … Continue reading Ontario Expanding Cancer Coverage for Firefighters

In the Canadian Legal Newswire

Why WSIB cost-of-living adjustment is being challenged in court? The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) has filed a court application challenging the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) cost-of-living adjustment for 2022 https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/why-wsib-cost-of-living-adjustment-is-being-challenged-in-court/372423?utm_source=GA&e=YmlyZC5wZXRlci5kQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ&utm_medium=20221219&utm_campaign=CLW-Newsletter-20221219&utm_content=4C08DF3F-6D6E-4881-AC7D-EB6AC0519205&tu=4C08DF3F-6D6E-4881-AC7D-EB6AC0519205

WSIB Issues: Loss of Earnings Rate and Deeming

MPP Wayne Gates re-introduced his bill to end 'deeming' for injured workers this week. Further details are included in the release below:  https://www.ontariondp.ca/news/gates-re-introduces-bill-end-deeming-injured-workers Gates re-introduces bill to end ‘deeming’ for injured workers Gates re-introduces bill to end ‘deeming’ for injured workers. QUEEN’S PARK — On Wednesday, Niagara Falls NDP MPP Wayne Gates’ bill, the Respecting … Continue reading WSIB Issues: Loss of Earnings Rate and Deeming