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Legal Aid Ontario
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) provides legal help in English and French for financially eligible low‑income Ontarians. LAO funds legal clinics like IAVGO.
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Steps to Justice
Steps to Justice gives reliable and practical information on common legal problems including:
step-by-step information to help you work through your legal problems
practical tools, such as checklists, fillable forms, and self-help guides
referral information for legal and social services across Ontario
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Workers' Action Centre
The Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) is a worker-based organization. It is committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and unstable employment.
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Human Rights Legal Support Centre
The HRLSC can help you if you need legal advice or assistance with respect to a matter covered by the Ontario Human Rights Code (or the “Code”).
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FCJ Refugee Centre
FCJ Refugee Centre serves refugees and others at risk due to their immigration status, and welcomes anyone asking for advice, counsel and support regarding these issues. It addresses systemic issues that newly arrived refugee claimants face in Canada including lack of resources, marginalization, and discrimination.
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Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups (ONIWG)
ONIWG is a provincial voice for workers who have been injured or made ill on the job. We have first-hand experience of the WCB/WSIB system, know it needs improvement and take united action to make this happen. goes here
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Injured Workers Action for Justice - IWA4J
We are a diverse grassroots group of injured workers and supporters fighting for justice.
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Justicia for Migrant Workers
Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer-run political collective. J4MW strives to promote the rights of migrant farm workers (participating in agricultural streams of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, including the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program) and farm workers without a formal immigration status.
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Office of the Worker Adviser
The OWA provides free and confidential services (advice, education, and representation) in workplace insurance matters (formerly called workers’ compensation). The OWA provides workplace insurance services to non-unionized injured workers and their survivors.
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Workers’ Health and Safety Legal Clinic
The Workers’ Health and Safety Legal Clinic (WHSLC) is a community legal aid clinic that focuses on workers’ rights with an emphasis on workplace health and safety issues and employment law issues.
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Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic
Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic is an independent community legal clinic, funded by Legal Aid Ontario. IWC assists low-income and marginalized injured workers across Ontario without charge.
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Law Society Referral Service
The Law Society Referral Service (LSRS) fills an important community need by connecting people looking for legal assistance with a lawyer or paralegal. If you're looking for a lawyer referral service or paralegal referral service, LSRS can help.
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Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
OHCOW provides comprehensive occupational health services and information in five areas:
An inquiry service to answer work-related health and safety questions
Medical diagnostic services for workers who may have work-related health problems
Group service for workplace health and safety committees and groups of workers
Outreach and education to increase awareness of health and safety issues, and promote prevention strategies.
A research services to investigate and report on illnesses and injuries.
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Fair Practices Commission
THE MISSION of the Fair Practices Commission is to facilitate fair, equitable and timely resolutions to individual complaints brought by workers, employers and service providers and to identify and recommend system-wide improvements to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) services. The Commission operates impartially and at arm’s length from the management and operations of the WSIB. The Commissioner reports directly to the WSIB’s Board of Directors through the Chair.