A story on how group insurers can help plan sponsors provide adequate coverage and ensure appropriate use of treatments for rare diseases was the most-read article on BenefitsCanada.com this past week.

Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week:

1. Sounding Board: How employers can mitigate cost of drugs for rare diseases

2. Commercial real estate challenges forcing Canadian pension funds to re-evaluate strategy: report

3. Unions welcoming equitable pension reform for frontline public safety, law enforcement workers

4. 91% of PSAC members opposed to Treasury Board’s hybrid work mandate: survey

5. OMERS sells LifeLabs for $1.35BN, Ontario Teachers’ Venture Growth invests in Japanese HR software firm