Study: How workplace violence affects Ontario hospital workers
Following the release of a member poll on workplace violence earlier in the month that revealed more than two out of three healthcare workers had been physically assaulted at least once in the past...
View ArticleWhen workers die: the woeful state of OH&S regulation
“Penalties when workers die on the job don’t go far enough, say labour groups, families” / Jacques Marcoux, Kristin Annable (CBC News, Nov. 30, 2017) According to the most recent statistics available...
View ArticleRemembering Ontario’s workers
Communities across Ontario held ceremonies Friday and over the weekend to commemorate the national Day of Mourning. Injured workers speaking at these events brought home the horrendous reality behind...
View ArticleConstruction industry anxious for handout from Doug Ford’s WSIB
A recent article in the Daily Commercial News reports that construction industry leaders are anxious for details from the new Ford government. David Frame, director of government relations for the...
View ArticleExtreme heat and the worker
With global temperatures rising, heat waves are becoming the new normal, leaving many workers increasingly vulnerable to sunstroke and other heat-related illnesses, and at risk of injury from related...
View ArticleThe Opioid crisis, injured workers, and the WSIB
Although the opioid crisis is now recognized as a national priority in both Canada and the United States, the two countries with the highest per capita opioid usage, a feature article in Workers’ Comp...
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Govt bill weakens labour law protections for workers
This has been a challenging week for legal protection of workers’ conditions of employment and safety on the job. On Tuesday the Ford government introduced Bill 47, Making Ontario Open for Business...
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Feb 28 – 20th annual International RSI Awareness Day Conference, Toronto
download flyer February 28 marks the 20th anniversary of the International RSI Awareness Day. The annual event – established on the initiative of Ontario injured worker activist Catherine Fenech –...
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Italian delegation to share experience in dealing with the legacy of asbestos
From April 7-15 a delegation from Casale Monferrato, Italy, the small city of 36,000 people which has suffered more than 1000 mesothelioma cases from preventable asbestos exposure, will make a...
View ArticleFrom the House floor
On Monday Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell rose in the Legislative Assembly to present a petition and to address how principles underlying Ontario’s workers’ compensation system are...
View ArticleCuts to Prevention Office questioned
The line-by-line spending in the government estimates recently made public show a 13.5% budget cut ($16 million) to the Ministry of Labour’s Prevention Office charged with a mandate to improve...
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Who’s left out? Calling for coverage for all
At a time when labour reforms for a changing workplace with increasingly precarious employment have been rolled back and recent funding cuts leave Ontario workers, especially temporary workers, with...
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Upcoming Bancroft: Sick & Tired – health and safety inequalities
Still time to register for the October 1 Bancroft session! Editor Stephanie Premji (associate professor, McMaster University) will be discussing the recently published Sick and Tired: Health and Safety...
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Injured workers denounce premium rate reduction & death at Fiera Foods
(Press Release, Sep. 26 2019) The Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups (ONIWG) is appalled that the Ford government and WSIB are giving yet another massive gift to employers in the form of a 17%...
View ArticleIn the news … worker protections
Recent media coverage highlights a disturbing lack of progress on longstanding problems raised repeatedly by legal clinics, health and safety advocates and community groups regarding adequate worker...
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Auditor General finds Ministry of Labour health & safety enforcement lacking
As an injured worker advocate, I see many workers in economic vulnerability and in precarious and unsafe working conditions. I see workers who think of their workplace injuries every day, who think...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Frequently asked workplace health and safety questions
The Workers’ Health & Safety Legal Clinic (WHSLC) is keeping Ontario workers informed on key questions about COVID-19 and their employment: What can I do if I think my workplace is not following...
View ArticleA survey of workers’ experiences during a pandemic
Your participation is requested in this OHCOW survey which seeks information on not just your experiences of the physical aspects of working conditions during the pandemic but also the psychological...
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Commemorating workers on Day of Mourning – April 28
Although we cannot gather in the same way this year due to COVID-19 safety measures, tomorrow we will commemorate injured workers killed, injured or made ill on the job. A report released today, 2020...
View ArticleMigrant farmworkers at the epicentre
Only a few days after the heartbreaking death of essential worker 31-year-old Mexican Bonifacio Romero, a second young migrant farmworker has died from COVID-19 in the Windsor-Essex region. Nearly...
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