No “Half Measures” is an international conference on workers’ compensation 100 years after Sir William Meredith presented his options for reform that would remove injustice for injured workers.
“…Half measures which mitigate but do not remove injustice are, in my judgment, to be avoided. It would be the gravest mistake if questions were to be determined not by a consideration of what is just to the workingman, but of what is the least he can be put off with…” (W.R. Meredith)
The international conference will be held October 31 – November 2, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to commemorate the anniversary of the publication of the “Final Report” of Meredith’s three-year Royal Commission – and the passage in 1914 of Ontario’s first “modern” Workmen’s Compensation Act. Meredith’s principles and recommendations have come to be understood as the foundation of workers’ compensation also in other Canadian provinces and Commonwealth jurisdictions.
The conference opens at Osgoode Hall where Meredith wrote his Final Report and continues at the Ontario Federation of Labour on the following two days.
The Conference Organizing Committee invites you to participate with individual or group presentations. [click here for details]
Further details of the conference will be added to the conference website as they become available.
