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Best Buy helping staff work out from home with virtual fitness classes

Best Buy helping staff work out from home with virtual fitness classes

Best Buy Canada Ltd. has had a well-used on-site gym at its Burnaby, B.C. head office for a decade. But when employees started working from…

Is it time for employers to take a look at voluntary benefits?

Voluntary benefits are the ‘choose your own adventure’ of the insurance world. For readers who remember and enjoyed those novels, they felt empowered by their…

Sprout acquiring Calgary-based predictive health-data analytics provider

Toronto-based digital well-being solutions provider Sprout is acquiring Calgary-based predictive health-data analytics company Vivametrica Ltd. Vivametrica analyzes, measures and predicts health risks, potential outcomes and…

  • By: Staff
  • August 14, 2020 November 24, 2020
  • 09:00

How Corteva Agriscience Canada transformed its culture after a merger

Formed a year ago through a merger and a spin off, Corteva Agriscience Canada is using change as an opportunity to redefine what it means…

2020 Consultants Report: Pandemic will fundamentally change benefits, pension plans

The coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally changing the future of work and, very likely, the nature of employer-sponsored benefits and pension plans. Looking to the end…

Successful return-to-work processes more essential during coronavirus

Successful return-to-work processes more essential during coronavirus

For Chantelle Tadman, returning to work after maternity leave was more eventful than she’d hoped it would be. Between needing to take disability leave during…

Q&A with the City of Mississauga’s Elena Shiganova

The City of Mississauga’s acting senior manager of total rewards talks virtual health care, pension communications and spending time with family. Q. What top challenges…

Rare disease drugs strategy, standard coverage in CLHIA’s 2020 budget wish list

Rare disease drugs strategy, standard coverage in CLHIA’s 2020 budget wish list

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association is recommending the federal government develop a strategy for high-cost drugs for rare diseases, potentially by harmonizing catastrophic drug coverage…

  • By: Staff
  • August 12, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00

Starbucks launching digital wellness app for staff, family members

Starbucks Canada is partnering with Morneau Shepell Ltd. to make LifeWorks available to all 24,000 Canadian employees and their family members. The digital wellness platform and…

  • By: Staff
  • August 12, 2020 November 24, 2020
  • 08:45

EQ Care partnering with RWAM for virtual health-care services

EQ Care is forming a partnership with RWAM Insurance Administrators Inc. with the aim of facilitating access to virtual health-care services. RWAM, a Canadian third-party…

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  • August 11, 2020 November 24, 2020
  • 09:00

B.C. employer’s health tax to impact employees, says study

British Columbia’s new health tax will cost the average worker nearly $3,000 a year in foregone wages, according to a new study released by the…

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  • August 10, 2020 November 24, 2020
  • 15:15
Return some excess drug revenues to employers, CLHIA says in submission to PMPRB

Return some excess drug revenues to employers, CLHIA says in submission to PMPRB

In its submission to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s draft guidelines, the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association is suggesting that the board consider…

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  • August 10, 2020 November 30, 2020
  • 09:30
EQ Care, myHSA enter agreement expanding access to telemedicine

EQ Care, myHSA enter agreement expanding access to telemedicine

Digital benefits company myHSA and virtual health-care organization EQ Care are entering into an agreement to expand access to telemedicine. Through the agreement, EQ Care…

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  • August 7, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:45
Mental health firmly in the spotlight due to impacts of coronavirus, says report

Mental health firmly in the spotlight due to impacts of coronavirus, says report

Canada could experience a 2.6-fold increase in visits to mental-health practitioners and up to a 20 per cent increase in antidepressant prescriptions due to the…

Ontario pledges help for ‘overworked,’ ‘underpaid’ personal support workers

Ontario pledges help for ‘overworked,’ ‘underpaid’ personal support workers

Ontario’s overworked and underpaid personal support workers will soon be receiving government assistance, the province’s premier said Thursday as he heaped praise on a group…

Index shows coronavirus, response to racism affecting Canadians’ mental health

The ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the increased awareness and societal response to anti-Black racism, is continuing to affect Canadians’ mental health,…

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  • August 6, 2020 July 19, 2022
  • 09:00
Majority of employers expecting to bring back furloughed workers by Q1 2021, finds survey

Majority of employers expecting to bring back furloughed workers by Q1 2021, finds survey

While a majority (55 per cent) of North American employers said they expect most of their furloughed workers will return to work by the first quarter…

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  • August 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:30
Manulife sending employees’ kids to virtual camp

Manulife sending employees’ kids to virtual camp

The children of Manulife Financial Corp. employees can take a virtual visit to the International Space Station, create their own ice cream in a bag…

Older Canadians coping better than younger demographics in pandemic: study

Despite the coronavirus pandemic’s severe and disproportionate impact on the health of aging adults, older Canadians say they’re coping far better than younger demographics, according…

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  • August 5, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 08:45
iA Financial Group appoints Éric Jobin as EVP, group benefits and retirement solutions

iA Financial Group appoints Éric Jobin as EVP, group benefits and retirement solutions

iA Financial Group is appointing Éric Jobin as executive vice-president of group benefits and retirement solutions. Jobin had been in the role, on an interim…

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  • July 31, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:00

Retroactive pay, pension, insurance increases in new agreement for postal workers

Canada Post Corp. employees and some retirees are receiving retroactive wage increases, as well as adjustments to their disability and life insurance and pensions, through two new…

Sun Life, Caisse investing in Canadian telemedicine provider

Sun Life, Caisse investing in Canadian telemedicine provider

Sun Life Financial is making an equity investment of $32.7 million in Canadian telemedicine provider Dialogue, with the two entities forming a strategic commercial partnership.…

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  • July 30, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 08:45
Report calling for paid sick, family leave and changes to EI as part of pandemic recovery

Report calling for paid sick, family leave and changes to EI as part of pandemic recovery

A new report is urging the federal government to introduce new types of leave and make broad changes to employment insurance. The report, by the YWCA Canada…

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  • July 30, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 08:45
People Corporation adding Aon alums Siddall, Bell

People Corporation adding Aon alums Siddall, Bell

People Corporation Inc. is appointing two Aon alums to its team, effective July 31. Kim Siddall is vice-president of enterprise consulting for the West and Kevin Bell is…

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  • July 29, 2020 November 12, 2020
  • 15:15
Workplace inclusivity starts with acknowledging systemic racism: report

Workplace inclusivity starts with acknowledging systemic racism: report

Canadian businesses are grappling with how to move forward with conversations around race. “In order to affect the systemic changes needed to foster inclusivity, we…