Sentences with phrase «backs of injured workers»

However in pursuing its cost reduction strategy, the Board and government have violated both their promise not to achieve full funding on the backs of injured workers, and a key principle of workers» compensation — the «thin - skull principle» that one takes a worker as one finds him or her (that is, the Board can not consider any pre-existing conditions unless they were already debilitating the worker before the workplace injury).

Document challenges the spin being placed on the Board's «performance improvements» and cost reductions, achieved on the backs of injured workers.

In its recent 2015 Economic Statement, the WSIB indicated that it intends to reduce employer premiums by up to 45 % in the coming years, resulting in over $ 2 billion dollars a year being paid to employers — on the backs of injured workers.

Although Professor Arthurs emphasized that claims (entitlements) and benefits should not be reduced to achieve the WSIB's financial target, claims denials and cuts to injured workers» compensation and services show that full funding is indeed being paid for «on the backs of injured workers» (despite the promise government spokesperson MPP Leeana Pendergast made to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs, Dec. 6, 2010).

We refuse to accept any more cost - cutting on the backs of injured workers, and we're taking to the streets to make our voices heard.

Referring the the $ 2 billion the WSIB is pulling each year from the system, lawyer Brian Killick (Neighbourhood Legal Services) explained employers are being required to contribute less while rider Peter Page noted this funding strategy means the additional moneys found to lower the unfunded liability are being made on the backs of injured workers through benefit cuts and denied claims...

A forthright message to the Minister on just why injured workers feel so betrayed after government promises that the unfunded liability would not be solved on the backs of injured workers.

To add insult to injury, not only has the unfunded liability been reduced on the backs of injured workers (despite the McGuinty government's promise to the contrary when passing Bill 135) but now — with WSIB expenditures also lowered — the Board has announced a windfall for employers.

«That's seven or eight billion dollars that they've found in the system, yet they didn't increase assessment rates to employers, they took it off the backs of the injured workers through benefit cuts, they kept denying our claims, all of these things,» he said.

Presentation on 2013 budget calls for full COLA (as in the 2007 budget) and addresses policies that cut costs on the backs of injured workers, downloading compensation onto social assistance, the municipality and property tax system — precisely what Meredith's system was designed to avoid.

Letter to the Premier, in light of KPMG recommendations which seem aimed at transferring the cost off employers, reminds him of promise not to deal with unfunded liability on the backs of injured workers.

Not exact matches

State labor leaders are pushing back against a set of proposed Workers Compensation regulations they claim will slash benefits to injured wWorkers Compensation regulations they claim will slash benefits to injured workersworkers.

If only the injured worker were more like a salamander, the severed digits would grow back all of their own accord.

I have a lot of injured workers tell me that they feel something is wrong with their neck / back / knee but the doctor has ordered physical therapy and the injured worker is upset because they asked for an MRI but the doctor didn't order it and sent them to physical therapy instead.

This award was obtained on behalf of an injured worker who required a four level fusion in his back — a substantial impairment to his life.

If you have been injured as the result of a traumatic event (i.e., you fall at work injuring your Back), or if you suffer cumulative or repetitive trauma in the course of your employment (i.e., you repetitively use your hands and develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome), you may be entitled to recover workers» compensation benefits if medical evidence shows the work injury, or repetitive work activity, caused the diagnosed condition.

Dating back to the 70's, co-founding member Ron Motley was one of the first attorneys in the country to represent workers injured by the asbestos industry and to blow open the fact that the industry knew all along the health hazards of asbestos exposure.

«In fact, 92 per cent of all injured workers are back to work at no loss in wages within one year of their injury.»

Annable, G. (2000) «I want to go back to work: barriers to the re-employment of injured workers with significant disabilities in Manitoba», Workers with Disabilities Pworkers with significant disabilities in Manitoba», Workers with Disabilities PWorkers with Disabilities Project.

At the same time he drew attention to the Board's practice of «deeming» — «clawing back WSIB cheques based on made - up jobs they imagine injured people could be doing...» — acknowledging the efforts of the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Support Group in speaking out against this prinjured people could be doing...» — acknowledging the efforts of the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Support Group in speaking out against this prInjured Workers» Support Group in speaking out against this practice.

They are right when they say that injured workers who are not back to work within 6 months of their accident are likely to have long or permanent absences from work.

The purpose of workers» compensation is to provide injured workers with the financial compensation and medical care they need to heal without forcing them into bankruptcy or back to work too soon.

Despite the huge number of WSIB workers on the sunshine list, WSIB has been stashing away billions into savings through claims denials or through seriously & illegally reduced benefits, this has been done on the backs of hundreds of thousands of the most seriously injured workers.

Rather, from our perspective, the last five years has seen an unprecedented roll - back of benefits paid to injured workers, achieved through a variety of administrative and adjudicative tactics.

The workers» compensation team is dedicated to making the often times painful and confusing process of workers compensation into a better experience to get injured workers back into their lives.

72 - year - old injured worker Jimmy Velgakis begins a second hunger strike outside the WSIB offices to get a fair decision based on the merits and justice of his case (for a back injury).

It is time for the system to «get back to basics» and take care of injured workers.

Meanwhile, a new report from OSHA reveals that the cost for workplace injures has been shifted from employers onto the backs of taxpayers and injured workers.

Skits often use humour to address the serious situations injured workers face, such as dealing with the Board bureaucracy («Wheel of misfortune»), undergoing yet another medical assessment («I'm tired of being dissected like a frog»), being pushed back to work without adequate time to heal [KPMG medicine video], stigma («The great turkey fraud»)... Prepared by and with injured workers, skits get the message across at public rallies, academic conferences, injured worker meetings...

The appeal judge rejected all of those arguments because the employer was a «substantial corporation» (two facilities with a total of 770 people) that was «within a broader group of companies»; the employer had been found guilty on three charges under the OHSA; it was proper to consider the prior conviction (which was in 2004); and the harm to the injured worker was «devastating»: he was rendered a paraplegic when a robot on which he was doing a «quick fix» pressed against him on his back.

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