Jana Steele has left Goodmans and joined Osler as a partner in its pensions and benefits department.
Christopher Brown has joined the pensions, benefits and executive compensation group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He will work out of the Calgary office.
Good governance leads to better outcomes for a pension plan. That’s a given. If the party responsible for administering a plan builds a system, constructs a thoughtful process and incorporates risk management principles into the structure, then it’s highly likely that the outcomes for the plan will improve.
When a worker is an independent contractor and not an employee, there are important differences for an employer.
In late June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of much of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”
This article originally appeared on our sister publication, SmallBizAdvisor.ca. Ontario employers may be liable to pay the full value of an employee’s short-term and long-term disability benefit entitlements, according to the recent confirmation of an Ontario Court of Appeal decision. The decision only applies in certain cases. Employers are liable in cases where an employee is terminated […]
British Columbia is the most recent province to take a stand against workplace bullying. Amendments to the province’s Workers Compensation Act came into effect on July 1—meaning employers could now be on the financial hook for emotionally harmful work environments. The new legislation amends the act’s definitions of harassment and injury, and enables workers suffering […]
Murray Gold’s first day of work with Koskie Minsky LLP coincided with the start of the case Re Collins and Pension Commission of Ontario (the Dominion Stores case), in which the firm defended the grocery chain’s pension plan members following their employer’s withdrawal of the plan’s $56-million surplus. He was instantly hooked.
Quebec’s Superior Court has stated that Ontario’s recent Indalex ruling does not apply in Quebec. The Re Indalex Limited case found that, in some cases, pension funding obligations can rank ahead of debtor-in-possession (DIP) security and security on working capital assets of the employer. Quebec’s decision in Re White Birch Paper Holding Co. rests primarily […]
The federal government is about to undertake a review of this nation-defining piece of legislation and it’s important that all Canadians formulate a point of view on the future of our healthcare system. Employers in particular, have a vested interest in the outcome of these deliberations given the inter-relationship between the public system and employee benefits programs.