What do you do when you have a growing funding shortfall, an apprehensive membership, and virtually no communications infrastructure or budget? You set up a Facebook page, of course—at least that’s what Gord Graham, executive director for the Auto Sector Retirees Health Care Trust (asrTrust) did.
In the post-financial crisis world, perhaps plan sponsors can forgive DC plan members for wanting to hide their savings under the mattress. Slow GDP growth, volatile equity markets and eurozone fears could be considered good reasons to keep money out of the markets.
Marc Poupart, divisional vice-president, pension and retirement programs, with Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), discusses his company's extensive DC retiree base.
If one of the most effective ways to control costs is to have employees become better consumers, then they need to understand the benefits available to them. And while having an easy-to-understand plan is important, it’s only one part of the process.
Why now, when money is tight, are more and more employers turning to outside help with communication? At a basic level, the reasons are simple enough.
Benefits Canada chatted with Amber (Mac) MacArthur—a consultant, television host and journalist specializing in technology and social media—about how employers can make the most of social media.
With the aging population and increase in chronic disease—coupled with the rise in pharmaceutical costs and growing mental health concerns—it’s more crucial than ever to get employees engaged in their own health.
Benefits Canada’s sixth annual Survey of CAP Members held some surprising results, especially around newer communication channels such as social media and mobile apps.
An hour-long retirement plan enrolment session with an employee might be doing more harm than good.
The secret to Jim Micak’s satisfaction with his benefits plan is an employee survey. The president and CEO of DPRA Canada and corporate director of DPRA Inc., a software solutions company with offices across Canada and the U.S., says he would stop being happy with the plan offerings when his employees told him they weren’t satisfied.