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
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Advocates call out denial of chronic stress claims
The WSIB’s chronic mental stress policy is “discriminatory, exclusionary and narrow,” said Chris Grawey of Injured Workers’ Consultants (IWC) “…essentially a get-out-of-compensation-free card for WSIB and employers.” While 2018 reforms expanded eligibility for workers’ compensation…
Learn moreIWC cautions against proposed lock-in changes
In an interview for the CBC, staff lawyer Kathrin Furniss joins other advocates in warning that injured workers with permanent or long-term injuries could lose a key protection with removal of the “lock-in” rule under…
Learn moreIWC on surplus distribution without guardrails
Asked for comment in CBC’s coverage of Prince Edward Island WCB’s policy on surplus distribution regardless of employers’ track record of workplace safety, IWC’s caseworker Chris Grawey responds that “it’s insulting and disgraceful that there…
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.
