With an aging workforce and the large number of people over the age of 40 having at least one chronic condition, employers have an incentive…
With rising drug costs on the minds of many plan sponsors, a speaker at Benefits Canada’s Chronic Disease at Work event outlined some of the…
What’s it like to work while dealing with an autoimmune disease? At the 2016 Chronic Disease at Work conference on June 22 in Toronto, Dawn…
Vestcor Corp., an independent pension, benefits and investment management organization, has been created by the trustee boards of New Brunswick’s Public Service Share Risk Plan,…
As young Canadians fan out across workplaces this summer to get experience as interns, employers would do well to take stock of the myriad of employment…
Pension plans from the Université Sainte-Anne in Church Point, N.S., and the University of King’s College in Halifax have transferred into the Public Service Superannuation…
More than half (51 per cent) of U.S. employees feel the expanding job market gives them more negotiating power – around higher salaries and better benefits…
Manitoba has joined the other provinces in working towards enhancing the Canada Pension Plan, though Premier Brian Pallister said the province’s agreement with the federal…
If the defined contribution pension plan currently on the negotiating table for new Canada Post employees who are members of the Canadian Union of Postal…
Before my first internship, I thought that regardless of where I went, all internships would be the same: neither good nor bad but just a…
Investment volatility (52 per cent), retirement benefit costs (49 per cent) and regulatory compliance (47 per cent) are U.S. employers’ top three concerns now and for…
Willis Towers Watson has appointed Michael Thompson to its executive compensation team as a director in the Toronto office. Thompson has worked in both Canada…
The growth in life expectancy for beneficiaries of Canada’s old age security program declined slightly in recent years in comparison to the rates of the…
Don Smith, the recently suspended chair of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s board of trustees, has been removed from his position…
The University Pension Plan Ontario is creating a joint venture with Schroders Capital to invest in high-quality logistics and industrial real estate across northwestern Europe.…
The average Canadian defined benefit pension plan returned 0.6 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2025, down from 4.4 per cent in the previous…
A proposed retirement plan tax credit for small- and medium-sized employers could reduce cost barriers to offering employer-sponsored retirement programs, according to a new report…
The federal government is expanding its return-to-office mandate for public employees. As of May 4, executives in the federal public service will be required to…
With the new year may come new resolutions — or at least topics to keep in mind — for capital accumulation plan sponsors. Ongoing compliance…