WCB BY ANY OTHER NAME IS JUST AS BAD

Employers love to have it all their way. Workers can't sue them for injuries caused by negligent employers, foremen, supervisers or workplaces that are inherently unsafe. Allegedly the now WSIB (Workplace Safety & Insurance Board) have expedited things and removed the confrontational legal system from the mix. In reality they through the government and industrial lobby groups are constantly reducing premiums via reducing payments both in amount and duration. This can be accomplished through very simple administrative means. Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Worker benefits clawbacks "devastating"".

One of the more blatant methods used by the WSIB is to disregard the opinion of the doctors treating injured workers. Instead they rely on their own doctors looking at the paperweork submitted. Not even having their own doctors examine the injured workers seems outrageous. The Ontario Federation of Labour believes that for far too long employers have been getting off the hook for injuries sustained at their worksites.