TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - October 31, 2016) - Despite growing public attention surrounding the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's (WSIB) treatment of workers who get injured on the job, the WSIB announced Friday that they will further reduce employers' premium rates that fund the system.
"It hurts to know that instead of helping injured workers when we desperately need it, the WSIB is giving over $250 million to the very corporations whose unsafe workplaces made us sick," says Catherine Fenech, Secretary of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG).
There is growing public concern that WSIB's aggressive cost cutting measures are causing serious harm to workers who get injured on the job:
"It's outrageous that WSIB is reducing employer premiums at a time when they've been cutting benefits at an unprecedented rate," says Eugene Lefrancois, President of the ONIWG. "Without any change in laws, the WSIB is dismantling the compensation system for generations to come and ruining so many lives in the process."
Contact Information:
For more information, please contact:
Catherine Fenech
(905) 790-8198
(416) 333-9428
Karl Crevar
(905) 517-0831
Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)
Twitter: @ONIWG
www.injuredworkersonline.org