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Matthew Pavelich

Expert panel: How plan sponsors are navigating benefits costs, innovations in 2024

With 2024 well underway, it’s important for employers to adapt their strategies in the ever-evolving landscape of employee benefits. Employee expectations continue to evolve and…

  • March 13, 2024 March 12, 2024
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Benefits Canada Experts

Susan G. Seller

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Expert panel: Risk management, target-benefit framework among themes shaping pension industry in 2024

While it's impossible to predict exactly how pension case law will evolve in future, one can offer an educated guess at some legislative developments and…

  • January 16, 2024 January 15, 2024
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Expert panel: Air Canada decision illustrates danger of relying on pension plan terms in wrongful dismissal actions

A recent court decision in Ontario illustrates the potential danger for employers that attempt to rely on pension plan terms to refute claims for pension-related…

  • February 28, 2023 February 27, 2023
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Expert panel: An update on regulatory oversight of pension risk management

In January, the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities established a new committee with a mandate to develop a risk management guidance. In the CAPSA's…

  • December 13, 2022 December 12, 2022
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Expert panel: Is risk management the new frontier in pension governance?

The importance of risk management isn’t new for the majority of defined benefit pension plan sponsors and administrators. The impact of long-term interest rates, market…

  • June 7, 2022 June 6, 2022
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Benefits Canada Experts

Wendy Cukier

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Expert panel: How employers can support transgender, gender non-conforming employees

Canada’s most recent census found there are 59,460 Canadians aged 15 or older who identify as transgender and 41,355 who identified as non-binary. However, these individuals…

  • September 28, 2023 September 27, 2023
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Expert panel: How portable benefits can support inclusivity among gig workers

The concept of employee benefits was established on a foundation built decades ago, when employees worked full time and long term with one employer. Those…

  • July 6, 2023 July 5, 2023
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Expert panel: Employers embracing DEI to overcome labour shortages in 2023

Amid an ongoing labour shortage, employers of all sizes and sectors are increasingly embracing diversity, equity and inclusion. A recent Statistics Canada report found, as…

  • January 4, 2023 January 3, 2023
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Expert panel: How employers, employees can mitigate workplace microaggressions

Microaggressions — everyone has heard them or may have even used them. Defined as everyday verbal and behavioural slights against a person or group that…

  • October 4, 2022 October 3, 2022
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Benefits Canada Experts

Serafina Morgia

Expert panel: How employers can combat ageism in the workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are esteemed values held by many employers and are table stakes in the value proposition for employees and customers. However, in…

  • July 25, 2023 July 21, 2023
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Expert panel: How to connect with employees in a remote world

In Canada, the coronavirus pandemic is entering a new phase — vaccines are widely available, travel restrictions are gradually lifting and people are returning to…

  • November 23, 2021 November 23, 2021
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Planning for the new post-pandemic normal

For most Canadians, it’s been well over a year since most of the country went into its first lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. I…

  • May 18, 2021 June 1, 2021
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Benefits Canada Experts

Sara Tatelman

Expert panel: What does Canadian pension legislation say about polyamory?

In December 2022, the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia released an unexpected decision: two men, who had been in a polyamorous relationship with a…

  • May 10, 2023 May 9, 2023
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Expert panel: What does it mean for pension plan members to live separate and apart?

While pension plan administrators know about their plan members' employment history and salaries, they may not expect to learn much about their personal lives, including how…

  • December 6, 2022 December 5, 2022
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Expert panel: How employers can design health benefits, retirement plans for gig workers

Whether they're delivering takeout, chauffeuring passengers, or fixing leaky sinks, most gig workers in Canada don't get benefits. Classified as independent contractors rather than employees,…

  • May 24, 2022 May 26, 2022
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