The Bancroft Institute for Studies on Workers» Compensation and Work Injury (established originally in 1997 as the Injured Workers» Institute) was
formed by injured workers, advocates and academics to meet a need for education and research that focused on topics important to Ontario's workers.
Not exact matches
Construction site injuries are often covered
by workers» compensation, a
form of insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees
injured on the job.
Even though you collect
workers compensation benefits, there are other
forms of compensation that you may be able to obtain through a product liability claim when you are
injured by a defective industrial machine or piece of workplace equipment.
Termination of Award: The agreement
form reflecting when an
injured worker was released to return to work that is signed
by all parties and filed with the VWC.
The rationale and importance of this focus evolves from the understanding that
workers» compensation legislation - from the first modern act passed in Ontario in 1915 to the dramatic changes of the 1990s - would not have taken the
forms that it did without the concerted efforts, protests, and the successes achieved
by injured workers and their organizations.
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Local
injured workers groups should not think that
by forming a provincial or territorial organization, they will lose their autonomy — in fact the opposite is true.