Ellen MacEachen, professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo

Anne Hudon, Assistant professor, Programmes de physiothérapie, École de réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal

Katherine Lippel, Distinguished Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law, University of Ottawa, Law Faculty, Civil Law section (deceased September 23 2021)

Trainees who contributed to the work of the team:

• Tauhid Khan Hussain, PhD, University of Waterloo
• Nicole Billias, BSc, University of Waterloo
• Pamela Hopwood, PhD (ABD), University of Waterloo
• Meghan Crouch, PhD, University of Waterloo
• Sue Sherifali, former PhD student, University of Waterloo

IAVGO Community Legal Clinic (IAVGO)

Office of the Employer Advisor of Ontario (OEA)

Office of the Worker Adviser of Ontario (OWA)

Publications to add:

Billias, N., MacEachen, E., & Sherifali, S. (2022). “I grabbed my stuff and walked out”: Precarious workers’ responses and next steps when faced with procedural unfairness during work injury and claims processes. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 33(1), 160-169.

MacEachen, E., Hopwood, P., & Crouch, M. (2023). Retirement pension poverty among injured workers with long-term workers’ compensation claims. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 34(4), 753-771. https://doi.org/10.1017/elr.2023.43

Khan, T., MacEachen, E. The role of informal support systems during illness: A qualitative study of solo self-employed workers in Ontario, Canada. PLOS ONE, 2024, 19(3), e0297770.

Khan, T., MacEachen, E. Examining the health and wellness of solo self-employed workers through the narratives of precarity: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 24, 717.

Hopwood, P., MacEachen, E. (SRA), Crouch, M., McKnight, E., Malachowski, C. Return-to-work coordinators’ perceptions of their roles relative to workers: a discourse analysis. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2024, 34, 783-792

Neiterman, E., MacEachen, E., McKnight, E., Crouch, M. K., Kaminska, K., Malachowsk, C., & Hopwood, P. (2024). Negotiating safety: facilitation of return to work for individuals employed in high risk occupations. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 00, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-024-10189-9

Billias, N., MacEachen, E. Capturing perspectives of laypeople on policy effectiveness: Employers’ and precariously employed workers’ suggested improvements for the workers’ compensation system and work injury processes. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (In press; DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4155294/v1)

9-12 November 2022     MacEachen, E. and (in alphabetical order); de Rijk, A., Dyreborg, J., Fassier, J.B., Fletcher, M., Hopwood, P., Koivusalo, M., Majowicz, S., Meyer, S., Ståhl, C., Welti, F. Insights during the COVID-19 pandemic about how laws, policies and collective agreements protect employment and occupational health of low-wage and digital platform workers. European Public Health Conference, Berlin.

April 29, 2022    MacEachen, E. Understanding mental health and opioids during return to work. Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Mayday, Mayday Workplace Mental Health Series 2022, Toronto.

May 20, 2022     MacEachen, E. Return-to-work coordinators: the promise and the challenges. Linkoping University Seminar, Linkoping, Sweden.

6-10 February, 2022        * Hudon, A., MacEachen, E., Lippel, K. A four-jurisdiction qualitative analysis of workers’ compensation healthcare policies. 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health, Melbourne, Australia.

6-10 February 2022.       *  Khan, T., MacEachen, E. A furnished house without walls: Examining the work and health support systems of self-employed workers in Ontario, Canada. 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health. Melbourne, Australia.

1-3 June 2021    * Hopwood, P., MacEachen, E., Neiterman, E., McKnight, E., Crouch, M., (June 1, 2021). Return to work for ill and injured workers: coordinator perspectives of union involvement. Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies. Congress 2021 Conference, London, Ontario.

1-3 June 2021    *  Varatharajan, S., MacEachen, E. Health privacy for injured workers: a critical realist grounded perspective of the experiences of return-to-work. Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, Congress 2021 Conference, London, Ontario.

May 27-June 4 2021        *  Khan, T., MacEachen, E. Dunstan, D. Self-employment and social supports in Canada and Australia: A comparative policy analysis. Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies Conference, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

21-23 June 2021              * Varatharajan, S., MacEachen, E. Critical realist grounded theory: analysing health privacy during return-to-work management in Canada using the retroduction framework. 37th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, London, Ontario.

20-23 September, 2021 MacEachen, E. Return-to-work policy across social security systems: where have we arrived 30 years after the introduction of activation policies? XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Toronto, Canada.

20-23 September, 2021 MacEachen, E., Senthanar, S., Lippel, K. Developing workers’ compensation policy for all workers: gaps facing the precariously employed in Ontario. XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Toronto, Canada.

23 September, 2021       * Hudon, A., MacEachen, E., Lippel, K. Rehabilitation care for injured workers: highlighting how policies frame professional practices in four jurisdictions. European Forum on Rehabilitation Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

September 29, 2021        MacEachen, E., Neiterman, E., McKnight, E., Malachowski, C., Crouch, M. RTW Coordination: Insights for mental health and challenges for RTW process and injured workers. Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups Webinar. Thunder Bay, Ontario.

MacEachen, E., RTW and mental health: Canadian RTW Coordinator’s accounts of challenges and practical strategies, Webinar presented as part of a Webinar Series organized by the RTWPP project team, August 27 2020.  

Ellen MacEachen, « "Je pourrais facilement être remplacée" : Comment la précarité d’emploi façonne les conditions de retour au travail en Ontario », XXième Journée en droit social et du travail, UQAM, Montréal, le 15 mars 2019.

Ellen MacEachen, “Precarious employment and return to work after work injury: An Ontario Portrait” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Sonja Senthanar, “Family impacts relating to injured workers who attempt to return to work after a work injury” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Maryth Yachnin, IAVGO community legal clinic, Toronto, Margaret Keys, Office of the Worker Advisor of Ontario – OWA, Michael Zacks, Office of the Employer Advisor of Ontario – OEA, “Feedback from the partners on the Ontario and Quebec research” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.