WSIB Funding Fairness Overview with Policy Agenda 2012-13; excerpts of speech by McMaster University biologist George Sorger after being named Hamilton World Citizen of the year; ONIWG Harassment Policy; ONIWG Provincial Council meeting feedback form.
WSIB Reports - Third Quarter 2012 Report to Stakeholders; Consultation Report Modernization of the WSIB's Appeal Program, November 2012; 2012-2016 Strategic Plan Measuring Results Q3 2012 Report; The Work Reintegration Program Policy Consultation by Judy Geary; Return to Work and Disability Management The Business CAse, May 2009. A summary sheet for the Injured Workers' History Project video, Their Only Power Was Moral, is included in the file.
An OFL envelope containing presentation slides for the OFL Workshop on WSIB Benefits Policy Consultation.
Correspondence to Chair Elizabeth Witmer WSIB, OFL, ONIWG; agenda and action items for LIWAC; WSIB claimant case correspondence; WSIB Policy Renewal & Evaluation Initiative Update to the Chair's Advisory Committees, March 2012; WSIB Board Minutes regarding policy approval; WSIB pamphlets on the facts about injured worker stigma.
WSIB LIWAC expense report submissions and receipts for Steve Mantis; correspondence regarding funding; WSIB-Labour/Injured Worker Advisory Committee requirements, draft minutes, terms of reference.
Letter to Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal requesting for leading case strategy on pre-existing conditions; article regarding the relevance of pre-existing asymptomatic back injuries.
Lobby correspondence with Minister of Labour, MPP representatives, Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario, Premier Wynne, WSIB and Ontario Federation of LAbour; information regarding ONIWG Campaign Organizing & Strategy Meeting; Injured Worker Group updates.
Planning documents for the Workers' Comp is a Right Campaign with letters of support and Campaign Recap; ONIWG Research Action Committee Report to the ONIWG Board; WSIB Return to Work Program Overview, March 2017; planning correspondence; ONIWG Board of Directors meeting minutes; ONIWG reports on WCB claims and work acquired disabilities.
Ontario Federation of Labour, The Power of Many Action Plan for Mass Mobilization, November 2019; OFL WCB Committee Agenda, Policy Resolutions and correspondence; Deeming Laws and Practices as Violations of the Rights of the People with Work-Acquired Disabilities in Canada.
WSIB Strategic Plan 2019-2021; WSIB Administrative Practice Document, Maintenance Treatment; Proposal to the WSIB to create Blue Sky Round Table on Sustainable Return to Work, Steve Mantis, ONIWG, May 2020.
ONIWG Executive meeting minutes; Research Action Committee Report to the ONIWG Board; ARCH Disability Law Centre correspondence regarding ONIWG intervention in Supreme Court case, Commercial Spring and Tool Company Limited and Barrie Welding & Machine (1974) Inc.
ONIWG Executive Meeting minutes on ONIWG Governance, strategic planning, draft budget, land egal strategy.
Meeting minutes for the National COSH Worker Injured on the Job Campaign with correspondence; meeting schedules, agendas and notes for Injured and United and COSH Conferences.
Steve Mantis served for the term of January 1991 to December 1993 as a member of the Workers Compensation Board (WCB) Board of Directors. He was the first person appointed to the Board as a representative for workers.
The Workers Compensation Board, since renamed the Workplace Safety Insurance Board, was established January 1, 1915. It administers claims and compensation for people injured in the workplace. It is an Ontario government agency, with an arms-length relationship to the Ministry of Labour, and appointments to the Board of Directors are made by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
As well as acting on the Board of Directors, Steve Mantis served as a member of the WCB Audit Committee (1992) and as Chair of Rehabilitation of the Strategic Planning Co-Ordinating Committee (September 1993).
Vocational Rehabilitation Program Review related materials with information about ergonomics and jurisdictional approaches.
Why Some Employers Have a Better Workers' Compensation Experience than Others, by E. M. Welch, 1991.
Collection of research articles on subjects of experience ratings, service policy, disability and social partnerships. Objectives for establishing a Chief Vocational Rehabilitation Officer position is included in the file.
Notes from sessions of the WCB Strategic Planning Co-Ordinating Committee, March and April 1993 with relative correspondence.
Meeting minutes for the Audit Committee with information on the 1992 financial report; report; financial reporting; action points; and financial data.
Meeting minutes for the Strategic Planning Committee with a copy of the report on rehabilitation, May 1993.
Correspondence regarding report on coverage with copy of report for Board of Directors, December 1993.
This file contains documents for strategic planning including the WCB mission statements; rehabilitation philosophy; financial compensation; coverage under the Workers' Compensation Act; updates; and a copy of the Workers' Compensation Act 1992.
This file contains a memo outlying the planning process for strategic change; a listing of new acquisitions acquired by the WCB Reference Library; and a memo containing the WCG organizational chart.
This file contains a memo outlying the strategic directions for the Ministry of Labour with mission statement, strategic directions, and organizational structure.
This file contains correspondence about the process of strategic planning with a copy of the WCB mission statement; operating plan for the Manitoba WCB; updates from Chair of the Strategic Planning Coordinating Committee; and strategic planning documents for the Northwest Territory WCB.