TORONTO and LONDON, Ontario and OSHAWA, Ontario and PETERBOROUGH, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, June 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Injured & ill workers will gather at Queen's Park and across the province as they have done every June 1st for 43 summers. This year, however, they come together for the first ever provincially proclaimed Injured Workers' Day, thanks to the passage of Bill 118 – The Injured Workers' Day Act."Making Injured Workers' Day official helps make our long-term struggle visible in Ontario," says Janet Paterson, president of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers' Groups, "but until it is accompanied by meaningful action to help address the poverty we face, it isn't enough."In the last year alone, the Ontario Government and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) have handed over $4.5 billion dollars in "rebates" to employers – ...Full story available on Benzinga.com