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Survey shows four times more poverty among injured workers
Posted June 4, 2009
Article source Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups (ONIWG)
From an Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups press release:
The Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups has released its report "Impacts of Workplace Injury," revealing a picture of poverty that many would not have expected. More than 200 injured workers from across Ontario were surveyed. The data were gathered and analysed by members of ONIWG with the assistance of a graduate student from York University.
READ MOREWorkers’ Compensation Needs to Work for Workers - June 1st is Injured Workers’ Day in Canada
Injured Workers Day is an important day that commemorates the events of June 1st, 1983, when thousands of injured workers came to Queen's Park in Toronto to speak against the government's proposal to eliminate the permanent disability pension. The government listened and set aside the proposal. The number of compensable injuries in Canada, nearly one million Canadians per year from coast to coast to coast, makes Canadians sadly aware of the pain and suffering workers endure as a result of workplace injuries. Unfortunately, far too many workers are not receiving the care and services that workers compensation was designed to provide.
There are discrepancies among the provinces and territories. Worse yet, Workers' Compensation Boards are continuously bowing to corporate pressure to make changes that are not beneficial to workers.
READ MORETONY VINCENZI Wanted: a moral government
Posted June 3rd 2009
JANUARY 4, 2004 AT 14:20 hours is the recorded time that I joined a very elite circle of people. It’s the exact time I became a member of British Columbia’s permanently disabled work force.
I lost the independent life of being a member of the Canadian Coast Guard. I was relegated to a life of ongoing pain, of days of despair, of sleepless nights, and of the torment of the unknown.
It was a life admittedly I wished I could have ended on occasion.
READ MOREAppointment threatens WorkSafeNB appeal board's 'autonomy': CME
The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters association is calling on the Liberal government to rescind the appointment of a Fredericton lawyer as chairman of the WorkSafeNB appeals tribunal.
'We're hoping that government takes sober second thought and does indeed rescind the appointment and put in place the candidate that had been recommended by the WSNB board and its stakeholders.'— David Plante, CME
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Posted Mar 6th 2009
The provincial insurance program that is supposed to promote safe workplaces needs to be immediately fixed and possibly replaced, says a sweeping review that could affect tens of thousands of Ontario businesses.
The audit of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's incentive program confirms the findings of the Toronto Star's multi-part Working Wounded investigation published over the past year.
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Star series triggered sweeping review of Ontario's workplace safety policy.