Many Canadian financial services organizations do well in disclosing their direct carbon emissions, according to the 2016 rankings from ET Index Research. Manulife ranked 59th and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ranked 62nd on the global list. Both companies disclose complete direct emissions – last year, Manulife directly emitted 1750,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and CIBC emitted 69,000 tonnes. […]
Shopify Inc. has been named the best place to work in Canada in 2017 by jobs and recruiting marketplace Glassdoor. Its annual list of the best places to work honours workplaces across Canada, the United States, Britain, France and Germany. In Canada, the list showcases employers with 1,000 or more employees, ranking their workplace on […]
How can employers implement a strategic wellness program to make a difference to employees’ mental health? Eric Pfeiffer, senior health management consultant at Manulife, presented four of the top findings of the Salveo study at the Mental Health Summit in Toronto. The study looked at more than 2,000 employees in 63 different companies, specifically focusing […]
John Salmond has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Group Medical Services and GMS Insurance Inc., effective Nov. 20, 2016. With nearly 30 years of senior sales and marketing experience, Salmond held a series of roles at Manulife Financial before joining GMS in August 2013 as vice-president of sales and marketing. The organization, […]
Employers can use five management practices to lower mental health and disability claim rates in their organization, according to a new study. The five-year Salveo Study, led by researchers from Université de Montréal, Université Laval and Concordia University, in partnership with Manulife Financial, identified some of the risk factors that contribute to mental-health disorders in […]
At the end of October, a City of Toronto audit committee meeting revealed that the city has four times the occurrence of claims for erectile dysfunction drugs than other employers with benefits plans provided by its provider Manulife Financial. While the drug Cialis was the fourth most claimed drug among municipal employees, it was 31st […]
Over the past 15 years, 11 seasonal employees at the City of Toronto earned more on long-term disability leave than they did while working, assistant auditor Jane Ying said at an audit committee meeting on Friday. While payments were correctly calculated for full-time employees, 47 of 56 claims from seasonal staff between 2000 and 2015 […]
The City of Toronto has four times the occurrence of claims for erectile dysfunction drugs than other employers with benefits plans provided by Manulife Financial, Toronto’s auditor general Beverly Romeo-Beehler said at an audit committee meeting on Friday. While the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis was the fourth most claimed drug among city employees, it was 31st […]
Millennial business owners are more likely to invest in employee benefits with 81 per cent investing in benefits within a year of launching their business, according to a new report by Manulife Financial. The online survey of 1,010 Canadian small business owners, 25 per cent of whom are millennials, found nearly half (45 per cent) […]
Health Canada approved the abortion pill Mifegymiso in July 2015. Late last month, however, all provinces but Quebec announced they wouldn’t include the medication in their formularies because manufacturer Celopharma refused to fund a cost-effectiveness study. On Oct. 7, Celopharma reapplied for the Common Drug Review, which is open for patient input until Nov. 25. […]