In a Toronto Star op-ed IWC caseworkers call on whichever government takes power after the election to change the WSIB’s arbitrary and discriminatory age 65 cut-off for wage-loss benefits.
Even though the province abolished mandatory retirement in 2006, workers’ compensation legislation was exempted. However more Canadians are staying in the workforce past the age of 65, in part because they can’t afford to retire. The WSIB’s own data bears out this trend. From 2002 to 2020, the number of workers’ compensation claims for workers age 65 or older has increased by more than 500 per cent…
Read full article: by Tebasum Durrani and Chris Grawey
