Contrary to popular perception, there are more assaults in hospitals than in any other industry. Long-term are facilities are also major site for assaults. Health care as a whole has by far the most assaults that result in lost time injuries – far, far more than any other sector. Assaults in hospitals
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Defend Public Healthcare: Health care support workers have the highest number of workplace injuries
Lost time injury (LTI) claims for workers compensation by health care support workers have shot up in the last few years, even before COVID-19. For many years, claims were in the 2,500 range, before starting an upward track in 2014, rising to 4,271 in 2019, just before COVID-19 hit.
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: Government plans to take $400 annually from every employee — and give it to employers
The government plans to cut employer Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) premiums $2.4 billion per year. Here’s the plan laid out in the 2016 Budget documents: The WSIB has taken significant steps to reduce costs, and its finances have been improved by growth in investment returns and insurable payrolls. After hitting a
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Why the CN tower will be yellow tonight
Each year more Ontarians lose their lives through their job than by criminal homicide. It’s a sobering thought. In 2012 the WSIB reported 254 workplace-related fatalities and more than 140,000 injuries in Ontario. Of those 254 deaths, 64 were traumatic … Continue reading →
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Workers’ Compensation Benefits Curtailed for Injured Antiques Aficionado
An October, 2011, decision by the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal should signal to those of us who not only collect, but also repair, show or deal in antiques, that our hobby activities may be scrutinized by adjudicators determining entitlement to benefits arising out of a workplace injury. The
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Liz Witmer’s Political Karma
As a survivor of the Mike Harris years in Ontario, I have very vivid memories of what was undoubtedly the most mean-spirited and incompetent of provincial regimes I have ever lived through. Their economic ‘strategy’ of slashing and burning, selling key assets such as the 407 to foreign consortia to
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