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Manulife employee adopts 2 children with help from enhanced benefits offering

mdunne — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:00:54 +0000

Mandy Kwasnica and her husband’s lifelong dream to add children to their family has come true. The couple recently brought two children — Anya, 9, and Artem, 11 — to Canada after adopting them from the Ukraine (the new family of four is pictured above). “The second day we saw them, [Anya] had cards for […]

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Majority of HR leaders believe benefits, retirement offerings meeting needs of all: survey

mdunne — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:00:02 +0000

The majority of human resources professionals said they believe their organizations’ current benefits and retirement offerings are meeting the needs of a diverse workforce, according to a new survey by Aon. The survey, which polled 262 HR professionals across Canada, found almost three-quarters (74 per cent) said they believe their retirement savings program is sufficient for […]

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More Canadian employers topping up maternity leave benefits than parental leave benefits: survey

bwolfe — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:00:46 +0000

While more than half (58 per cent) of Canadian employers provide top-up pay for maternity leave benefits, just 33 per cent offer top-ups for parental leave benefits, according to a new survey by Aon. The survey, conducted among 207 Canadian employers, found 53 per cent provide income replacement of 95 per cent to 100 per […]

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Globe and Mail, Unifor deal includes enhanced mental-health benefit

bwolfe — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:00:54 +0000

The union representing employees at the Globe and Mail has ratified a new three-year contract that will provide a $1,500 mental-health benefit. Howard Law, director for the media sector at Unifor, says the mental-health benefit was increased from $850 and won’t be subject to the overall paramedical cap of $1,500. Read: Reliance Home Comfort, Unifor […]

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Bumble rolls out paid leave for global employees

Jennifer Paterson — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 19:00:17 +0000

Bumble Inc. is introducing paid leave and a biannual company-wide week off for its global employees. The dating app, which has offices in Russia, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S., is rolling out the paid leave to ensure employees are caring for themselves outside of work, according to a statement. It includes: a minimum of […]

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Editorial: The fourth trimester and the benefits plan

Jennifer Paterson — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:00:32 +0000

As any new parent can attest to, those early hours, days and weeks with a new baby are beyond challenging. In the fourth trimester (a common term for a baby’s first three months in the outside world), this brand new little human you’re tasked with keeping alive will give you vague clues about what they […]

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Canadian employers failing mothers returning from parental leave: report

Jennifer Paterson — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:45:14 +0000

The vast majority (95 per cent) of Canadian working mothers said they didn’t receive any formal support from their employer during their maternity leave transition, according to a new report by advocacy group Moms at Work. The survey, which polled more than 1,000 Canadian women who took maternity leave in the last 10 years, found […]

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Plan member’s adoption dream becoming reality thanks to benefits offering

mschmit — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:01:05 +0000

Mandy Kwasnica and her husband so desperately wanted to adopt they were ready to sink all of their money (and then some) into making their dream a reality. “Adoption is very, very expensive, but we knew in our hearts that this was the right move we were making,” recalls the manager of mortgage sales support at […]

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Manulife enhances family benefits for Canadian employees

mschmit — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:45:51 +0000

Manulife Financial Corp. is increasing its family leave support for Canadian employees, providing 20 weeks of paid maternity leave and 12 weeks of paid parental and adoption leave, effective Jan. 1, 2021. Canadian employees and their dependants also now have access to full gender affirmation coverage for both surgical and non-surgical treatments, as well as […]

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Editorial: Can working women have it all?

mschmit — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 05:00:11 +0000

I’m about to embark on the most exciting and terrifying chapter of my life — by the time you read this, I’ll be more than six months pregnant with my first child. With a decade in the industry, writing and editing stories about work-life balance, it’s now time to face the reality myself and try […]

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