Employers do not have a license to pry into your personal medical history. Privacy is essential in medical releases and you should be asking who the information is going to be used by and or shared with. In addition, new service providers, who have been contracted by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, may ask you to sign a medical waiver. If they do, ask around, call your local injured worker organization and or the Ontario Network of Injured Worker Groups before you sign. Do not give away your privacy just to please the contracted Labour Market Re-entry Service Provider.
Medical releases are important and can be helpful.
Abuses of medical releases can be stopped by a well informed worker. For more information on Medical Releases contact your injured worker group, union, labour council, worker advisor office or legal clinic. If you think that you have gotten worse than when given your last pension examination then you should get a copy of your last pension assessment. Have your doctor examine you and make a determination of your current medical status and compare that to your pension assessment. If you have an increased impairment then you should ask the doctor to write to the WSIB and ask that they arrange for a pension reassessment.