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3M Canada wins mental-health award for refreshing support during pandemic

Jennifer Paterson — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:00:47 +0000

Refreshing and re-communicating its mental-health program during the coronavirus pandemic led to 3M Canada’s win at the 2021 Workplace Benefits Awards on Oct. 14. Back in 2013, the manufacturing company began a journey to “empower employees to refresh, re-energize and feel well,” according to its award entry. However, while the wellness program was effective, the […]

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Expert panel: How plan sponsors can help make retirement, pensions more equitable

mdunne — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:00:57 +0000

Diversity, equity and inclusion is top of mind for many plan sponsors these days. And, while issues around retirement and pensions likely aren’t the key focus for employers looking to tackle DEI issues, they should be. This March, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a study that found the pension gender gap, or the difference […]

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Expert panel: Use words, imagery for inclusive employee communications

mdunne — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:00:05 +0000

Words and imagery have the power to connect, evoke emotion and elicit a reaction. They also have the power to be inclusive, or exclusive, and employers can now harness that power for good to ensure they’re creating an inclusive workplace for everyone. If you received an email written in language you couldn’t relate to, would […]

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Workplace Benefits Awards wins highlight investment in employees’ health, well-being

lbailey — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:00:13 +0000

The TMX Group Ltd.’s double award win at Benefits Canada’s 2020 Workplace Benefits Awards is shining a spotlight on the organization’s efforts to support its employees’ physical, mental and financial health and well-being. Last year, the financial services company took home the inaugural Coronavirus and Benefits award for an employer with fewer than 5,000 employees for […]

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Collective Arts Brewing tapping into digital communication tools amid pandemic

lbailey — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:00:46 +0000

Effective communications has become a necessity for employers since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. At Collective Arts Brewing Ltd., it’s also helping the company ensure staff safety and streamline the way they receive information. When the global pandemic was first declared in March 2020, Jenn Pavicich, the brewer’s vice-president of human resources, legal and […]

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Workplace Benefits Awards win a big boost for 2020 pension winner

bwolfe — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:00:34 +0000

Receiving peer recognition for an innovative communications strategy was among the reasons the Co-operative Superannuation Society pension plan entered Benefits Canada‘s 2020 Workplace Benefits Awards, according to Nicole Quintal, communications manager for the plan. “Quite a few peers in the industry reached out to us after we won the award and it was great to get […]

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Pension plan committees applying virtual meeting lessons to second year of pandemic

ANNA CAMPION — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:57:02 +0000

As the coronavirus pandemic ground the world to a halt in March 2020, stopping was not an option for Gale Rubenstein or her colleagues on the board of trustees at the University Pension Plan Ontario. The jointly sponsored pension plan had only come into existence two months earlier, and the clock had already begun ticking […]

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Rogers Communications keeps staff engaged in retirement savings

mschmit — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:42:19 +0000

In considering changes to its retirement savings programs, Rogers Communications Inc. is generally focused on three main internal and external factors: regulatory changes, employee feedback and demographics. “As we see the millennial and gen Z workforce grow quite a bit, we’re really trying to understand what that’s going to do to our plans in terms […]

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Communication key in pension risk management through coronavirus and beyond

mschmit — Thu, 21 May 2020 03:50:00 +0000

Communication can be a challenge for pension plan sponsors and trustees when trying to remain focused on the long term, said Matthew Leatherman, director at FCLTGlobal, during a webinar hosted by the Canadian Investment Review on Friday. “Trustee directors need risk information in order to fully govern and oversee their organization in a long-term manner. […]

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Can employees’ subjective ages impact their savings behaviour?

mschmit — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:54:47 +0000

In 2018, a 69-year-old man named Emile Ratelband in the Netherlands lost a legal fight to change his birth date to 20 years earlier, arguing that he didn’t feel as old as he was. The court case inspired a paper looking into the idea of subjective age versus biological age and how it impacts economic […]

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