Sentences with phrase «injured worker groups»

Despite extremely tight time frames, worker advocates, including the Schedule 33 Coalition (of legal clinics, injured worker groups, lawyers and doctors), made submissions and presented to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs» only public hearing on May 15.

The effect of these changes on the injured worker, often in the worker's own words, is gathered from many sources: workshops and conferences, public consultations and hearings, injured worker groups, media investigations and coverage, participatory action projects, lobbying and advocacy activities, oral histories & personal accounts recorded in photos, poems and song.

Selected publications — submissions, articles, reports, Injured Worker History Project bulletins — by Injured Workers» Consultants, ONIWG and other injured worker groups are available here, together with links to external sources of information you may find useful.

It's a province - wide campaign, with participating injured worker groups...

The campaign was launched in September 2017 by the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups (ONIWG), an umbrella organization of injured worker groups in communities throughout the province.

Letter to the WSIB Chair protests the Consultation's virtual dismissal of worker - side concerns submitted, with considerable time and effort, by injured worker groups, labour and advocates.

We work with other community legal clinics, advocacy groups, injured worker groups and unions for positive change in workers» compensation laws and policy.

Before the Board makes any changes, they are engaging in a broad consultation process, allowing workers, employers, and their respective advocates to give input [see some of the clinic and injured worker groups submissions to the consultation]

Coalition of legal aid clinics, workers» compensation lawyers, injured worker groups, doctors address provisions in amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act regarding chronic mental stress entitlement and the expansion of Board policy - making powers.

These outreach clinics — which are designed to help new injured worker groups establish themselves and grow — are planned over several months.

As a result, the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups, Injured Worker Consultants, and Margery Wardle, an individual affected by the legislation, have filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court.

The Legislative Assembly's Standing Committee on Government Agencies listened to objections by legal clinics, injured worker groups and labour unions.

A group of cyclists, sponsored by the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups (ONIWG), are pedalling from Windsor to Toronto.

We work in conjunction with other injured worker organizations, advocacy groups and unions, including the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups (ONIWG), the Canadian Injured Worker Alliance (CIWA), the Toronto Injured Worker Advocacy Group (TIWAG), the Ontario Legal Clinic Workers» Compensation Network, and the Ontario Federation of Labour.

July 4, 2012 Ontario Legal CLinics Workers» Compensation Network; Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Present to share proudly in recognition of her work were representatives of groups with which she works, including members of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), IWC, the OFL and with the Iranian Canadian Congress.

Leading the Peel Injured Worker Group is long - time community activist, Catherine Fenech, Secretary to the umbrella organization Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups (ONIWG), founder of the International RSI Awareness Day and board member of Injured Workers Consultants» Community Legal Clinic.

AUNDECK OMNI KANING — A small and sombre group of Island elected officials, union representatives and organization heads joined members of the Manitoulin Injured Workers Group...

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Group (ONIWG) and its supporters rallied at Simcoe Park in Toronto earlier this week, lobbying to have the WSIB start treating every injured worker with respect.

It is a feeling that the president of the Manitoulin - North Shore Injured Workers Group (MNIWG) shares.

While they were not in attendance at the rally, the Manitoulin - North Shore Injured Workers Group (MNSIWG) was in support of the rally and issues raised by ONIWG.

Steve is serving his fifth term as Secretary of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG).

[Update Jan. 9: Willy Noiles, President of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, explains on Radio 610 CKTB's morning Larry Fedoruk show how the WSIB is using minimum wage to cut compensation benefits — listen to the interview (8 mins)-RSB-

The Clinic hosts meetings of injured worker support groups, including the Bright Lights injured workers, Chinese Injured Worker Group and Women of Inspiration.

The project was initiated and provided research assistance by Injured Workers» Consultants, the Sudbury Community Legal Clinic, the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, the Income Security Advocacy Centre and the Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Group (ONIWG) had gained intervener status and the room was packed with injured workers and their representatives.

Community Involvement: The project involves partners from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, Injured Workers» Consultants, Office of the Employer Advisor, Ontario Network of Injured Workers Group, Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, and the Office of the Worker Advisor.

2017), the must - read newspaper of the Ontario Network for Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), is now available.

«We took this case on because this is an issue that injured worker advocates have been pressing for several years at all avenues without being afforded any kind of effective change until the very recent changes... which was in itself insufficient,» said Goldblatt lawyer Christine Davies, who is working on the case on behalf of Wardle, the Injured Workers Consultants legal clinic, and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups.

In speaking to a meeting of the Brantford Injured Workers Group last Thursday, Trent University professor Fergal O'Mahoney discussed his survey of injured workers which found a clear relationship between the stigma injured workers face and mental health problems.

January 4, 2016 Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, Industrial Accident Victims» Group of Ontario

«WSIB premium cuts hurts injured workers says OPSEU, Injured Workers Group» / Tom Sasvari (Manitoulin Expositor, Sep. 23, 2016) At its recent Annual general meeting, the WSIB announced cuts to the premiums employers pay in 2017, averaging 5 % but decreasing by up to 14 % in some categories.

2013 draft revision (prepared for the Meredith Conference) of the blueprint collaboratively created by the injured worker and labour community and endorsed in 2004 by the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups and the Ontario Federation of Labour.

In June this year the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups filed a lawsuit in Ontario's Superior Court seeking a declaration that the exclusion of chronic stress is contrary to the Charter and has been invalid since the law was changed by Bill 99.

Our group now includes 5 singers from the Chinese Injured Workers group, and we sing Canadian favourite «Red River Valley» in both languages.

Organizations affiliated with the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups Barrie and District Injured Workers» Group ph: [phone] [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/Barrie-District-Injured-Workers-Group-1586841924925657/

Most recently (Jan. 9, 2018) on the Larry Fedoruk late afternoon newstalk show (St Catharines, CKTB 610), Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups president Willy Noiles discussed deeming and the WSIB's use of the minimum wage to cut benefits.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG) is once again supporting the fourth annual Justice for Injured Workers bike ride / Cycleton Justice pour les accidenté (e) s du travail.

Please enclose a cheque or money order payable to The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups and mail to: ONIWG Treasurer Janet Paterson 127 Ravenwood Avenue Thunder Bay ON P7B 4H7

Forming a provincial body not only allows local injured workers groups to retain their autonomy, but it increases their ability to show local injured workers that their voices will be heard across the province or territory.

Each Provincial Injured Workers Group can select their own representative (s) to be appointed to the CIWA Governing Body and CIWA Board of Directors.

CIWA continues to follow its mandate to work with injured workers and injured workers groups to form provincial and territorial organizations in all provinces and territories in Canada.

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.

Click on the name of the injured worker group listed below to find information on what they do and contact details.

The Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG), formed in 1991, provides leadership and the provincial voice for Ontario's injured workers.

We know there are local injured workers groups in most provinces and territories.

The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA), formed in 1990, is a national network of injured workers groups that aims to support and strengthen the work of local, provincial, and territorial injured workers organizations.

Not exact matches

ALBANY - Labor - backed groups and lawyers for the injured on Wednesday continued to pressure the state Workers» Compensation Board to back off on changes they say would shortchange countless people who are hurt on the job.

A group of specialty doctors, who are fighting a new rule that would cut their compensation for treating injured workers, donated heavily to Cuomo's reelection campaign this year.

The governor's proposal also lacked measures «to help the claimants» side of the table,» countered Art Wilcox, a former AFL - CIO staffer who heads the Worker Protection and Compensation Coalition, a group that advocates for injured workers.