Not surprisingly, the topic of drug plan reform trumped the Solutions in Drug Plan Management held on June 3, 2010, at the Delta Meadowvale Resort & Conference Centre in Mississauga, Ont. Presented by Drugstore Canada and Benefits Canada magazines, the conference zeroed in on Ontario stakeholders’ concerns about how drug plan reform was shaping up, […]
While your organization may have a flu pandemic plan, it probably doesn’t have a system in place for an obesity pandemic. Yet, with populations getting heavier, and an estimated 20% to 50% of the adult population living with a weight problem, this is an epidemic that cannot be ignored. As you’ll see inside this issue, […]
For most early retirees, free time is something had in spades. But Don Walcot, involved with numerous pension- and investment-related committees, is as busy now—if not busier—than he was before he retired. Walcot’s current volunteer commitments include the York University Investment Committee; the McGill Library Advisory Committee; the Presbyterian College at McGill; and the client […]
The workforce at SNC-Lavalin is not your typical group of employees. Highly skilled (most are engineers) and mobile (continuously moving from one project to another in more than 100 countries), the size of the employee population changes as projects ramp up and down. Obviously, long-term costs are an issue, but educating and gaining the participation […]
The recent “Strategies for Managing Health Plans through a Challenging Economy” webinar presented by the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans outlined several strategies plan administrators can implement to reduce health plan costs without sacrificing the scope or quality of benefits offered to employees. According to Dean Hatfield and J. Richard Johnson of the Segal […]