Research & Policy

Patients, workers, and health providers interested in learning more about the recent changes in employment legislation and how they can protect themselves from workplace unfairness can find relevant information below.

Research & Policy

DWHN Submission RE: Personal Long-Term Illness Leave

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - BENGALI

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - SPANISH

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - EN

Blame Ford's Cuts, Not Immigrants

Poster: Healthcare for All, Status for All, Decent Work for All.

Organizing Conversation Guide

Organizer Toolkit: MPP Visits

FACTSHEET: Ontario needs Healthcare For All

WIPB Leaflet 2023

Factsheet: Truths and lies about healthcare privatization in Ontario

Better Work for Better Care forum FLYER

Health Worker Signup Sheet

Customizable June 3 Leafleft

Healthcare For All Poster

Privatization Backgrounder

Poster: Paid Sick Days Now - Sign Petition

Factsheet: Myths & Truths of Paid Sick Days

Poster: May 21 Paid Sick Days for All

Flyer: May 21 Day of Action Colour

Paid Sick Days for All PSW Superhero

Flyer: May 21 Day of Action B&W

Shareable: Paid Sick Days for All Nurse Superhero

Shareable: Paid Sick Days for All Cleaner Superhero

Report: Unpaid Wages, Unprotected Workers (2011)

Report: Care Workers Voices for Landed Status and Fairness (2018)

Postcard: Decent Work and Health Network

Infographic: Bad Jobs are Making Us Sick (Access Alliance)

Placard: I'm a Flu Fighter and I Support Paid Sick Days

Shareable: Paid Sick Days Good for All

Potential Health Equity Impacts of Bill 47 (2018)

Pledge: I'm a Flu Fighter. I Support Paid Sick Days.

Shareable: Hospital Overcrowding Getting Worse

Shareable: Health Minister Scrapped Sick Days

Shareable: The Flu Shot isn't Enough

Placard: Equation for a worse flu season

Placard: Workers Need Paid Sick Days

Placard: Fight the Flu with Paid Sick Days

Leaflet: Bring Back Paid Sick Days

Redirect: Fight for $15 and Fairness

Report: No Big Deal: Impact of NYC's Paid Sick Days Law on Employers (2016)

Report: Still Working on the Edge (2015)

"Effects of increased minimum wages by unemployment rate on suicide in the USA” – John A Kaufman et al. (2020)

“The impact of workplace policies and other social factors on self-reported influenza-like illness incidence during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic“ – Kumar S, Quinn SC, Kim KH, Daniel LH & Freimuth VS (2012)

“Sick at work—a risk factor for long-term sickness absence at a later date?” - CD Hansen & JH Andersen (2009)

“Paid sick leave and nonfatal occupational injuries” – Abay Asfaw, Regina Pana-Cryan & Roger Rosa (2012)

“Perceived effects of leave from work and the role of paid leave among parents of children with special health care needs” - Mark A. Schuster et al. (2009)

“Working While Ill as a Risk Factor for Serious Coronary Events: The Whitehall II Study” - Mika Kivimäki, et al. (2005)

“Pathways between under/unemployment and health among racialized immigrant women in Toronto” - Stephanie Premji & Yogendra Shakya (2017)

Work problems? Important numbers.

Poverty: A Clinical Tool for Primary Care Providers (2015)

How to Assist Injured Workers: A Guide for Physicians in Ontario (2015)

Redirect: Ministry of Labour

Redirect: Workers' Action Centre

Report: Employers’ Perspectives on San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Policy (2009)

Report: Precarity Penalty: Impact of Employment Precarity (2012)

Report: Employment & Income Insecurities Faced by Racialized Groups in Black Creek Area (2013)

Report: Tired of the Hustle: Youth Voices on Unemployment (2016)

Patient Stories

Migrant Workers Deserve $15 and Fairness

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