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Increase to wage-loss benefits is crucial

2022-07-06

If the government follows through with increasing wage loss benefits from 85% to 90% of net lost wages for workers injured on the job who can’t return to work, it would simply be restoring these benefits to their previous levels.

As IWC caseworkers Chris Grawey and Tebasum Durrani explain in a Toronto Star op-ed, “Ontario must increase pay to injured workers”, the cut to loss of earning benefits in 1997 was justified by the government on the grounds that the workers’ compensation system was facing a financial crisis. Yet, at the same time employer-paid premiums, which finance the WSIB, were slashed and continue to be reduced and rebates given while workers have seen little additional financial support from the provincial government or the WSIB….. [read full article]

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Updated 2023-09-23

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