A series of major winter storms that shut down highways, closed schools and prompted travel warnings across parts of Ontario is renewing scrutiny of how employers apply return-to-office policies during emergency situations. During a severe snowstorm earlier this month, an internal memo sent to Ontario public servants by the provincial Ministry of Transportation indicated they […]
An article on how plan sponsors can handle lost pension claims was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week: 1. Expert panel: How plan sponsors can handle lost pension claims 2. Feds increasing pay, retention bonuses for CAF […]
For their 15th wedding anniversary, Katie Walley-Wiegert and her husband decided to take a beach vacation with their young son. But the trip didn’t go as planned: Walley-Wiegert wound up needing to pack her computer because of a work assignment she couldn’t ignore. The 38-year-old marketing professional had just landed a podcast interview for an […]
More than half (59 per cent) of U.S. workers say they feel some form of anxiety when it comes to taking time off, according to a new survey by LiveCareer. The survey, which polled more than 1,000 U.S. workers, found a third (33 per cent) said they feel pressure not to use all their paid […]
Two-fifths (40 per cent) of employees say they’ve called in sick when they weren’t actually ill to extend a weekend or attend a social event during the summer, according to a new survey by Dayforce Inc. The survey — which polled more than 2,000 full-time workers in North America and the U.K., including 479 Canadian […]
Half (51 per cent) of employers say mental-health leaves of absence are increasing and four in 10 employees said they’ve taken a leave of absence to care for their own mental health, according to a new survey by wellness app Headspace. The survey, which polled more than 250 U.K. and U.S. employers and more than […]
Canadian employees who took vacation in 2024 worked, on average, an additional 13.6 hours on top of their regular work hours to prepare for and catch up after taking time off, according to a new survey by ADP Canada. The survey, which polled more than 1,200 employees, found nearly a third (31 per cent) said […]
Seven in 10 (70 per cent) employees say they’re dissatisfied with their employer’s current benefits plan, according to a new survey by Robert Walters Canada. The survey, which polled more than 500 employees, found more than a quarter (27 per cent) agreed the benefits their employer offers are mostly trivial and do more to attract employees […]
The majority (83 per cent) of generation Z frontline workers say they feel burned out, compared to 75 per cent of all frontline employees, according to a new survey by UKG Inc. The global survey, which polled nearly 13,000 workers, found 36 per cent of gen Z workers said they’d quit their job because it negatively […]
The union representing 60 employees at Maple Leaf Foods in Port Perry, Ont., has ratified a four-year collective agreement that includes pension and benefits gains. Vision coverage will increase from $280 to $315 in the first year and coverage for paramedical services will increase from $380 to $410 in the first year and to $420 […]