Serving injured workers free of charge since 1969
Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic is an independent community legal clinic, funded by Legal Aid Ontario. We assist low-income and marginalized injured workers across Ontario without charge
Learn more about our servicesRebalancing the workers’ compensation system
Read IWC’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy public hearings on Bill 149.
Updates
Rights Don’t Retire report release
The reform campaign of IWC and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups to end the WSIB’s age discrimination of older workers took another step yesterday with a media conference at Queen’s Park and release…
Learn moreLabour Pains: injured worker podcast #5
In this episode, titled “WSIB’s Age Discrimination”, Tebasum Durani interviews legal experts (and co-workers) John McKinnon and Chris Grawey about one of the ways WSIB policies and practices create poverty, focusing specifically on what happens…
Learn moreKnow Your Rights / drop-in meeting Sep. 24
IWC is hosting their monthly meeting for injured & ill workers on Wednesday, Sep. 24 from 1pm – 3pm. The topic: New research presentation: how psychological injuries are treated at the WSIB and return to…
Learn moreWe acknowledge that IWC exists on unceded traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We recognize and respect the home of many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples as the traditional stewards of the land. We recognize that the intersections of systems of oppression have caused continual harm to the indigenous communities around us. Our clinic recognizes the hardship that is caused by systemic oppression and seeks to build practices and policies that promote equity, diversity and value within the clinic and to those we serve.
