More than half (56%) of employer respondents are using mobile apps and associated technologies to promote employee health engagement, according to a new study. The…
Some 71% of U.K. retirees said they started planning for retirement in advance, including 48% who started planning a long time before they retired, according to…
The number of U.K. company pension schemes entering into longevity swaps and bulk-annuity deals in 2016 is expected to increase due to schemes recognizing the importance…
Sick days are standard in most organizations, but a British company may soon allow its female employees leave to cope with a specific ailment: period…
After nearly a decade-long legal battle, roughly 1,600 people who say they were required by Scotiabank to work unpaid overtime will soon be splitting a…
Based on the current rate of progress, it will take more than 100 years before women earn the same wages as men. In Ontario today, even…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has appointed Jean Michel as executive vice-president, advisory services to depositors and strategic analysis. Michel will start his…
Though millennials have become the largest cohort in the Canadian workplace, many of those born in the 1980s and 1990s don’t have a good grasp…
A Quebec employer recently boasted about its unconventional hiring policy – the company has never hired a “smoker” in its 30 years as a business, and its proud of this stance.…
Raising the minimum wage will do little to reduce poverty mainly because most minimum-wage earners don’t live in low-income households, suggests a new study by…
Willis Towers Watson has appointed Scott MacDonald as a senior investment consultant. In the new role, he will consult with defined benefit and defined contribution…
Canadian-based Group Force Benefits has been acquired by New York-based NFP. “As we look to the future of our organization, we searched for a partner…
Amid slow global growth, chronically low interest rates and declining commodity prices, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) saw its return for 2015 slide…
Don Smith, the recently suspended chair of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan’s board of trustees, has been removed from his position…
The University Pension Plan Ontario is creating a joint venture with Schroders Capital to invest in high-quality logistics and industrial real estate across northwestern Europe.…
The average Canadian defined benefit pension plan returned 0.6 per cent during the fourth quarter of 2025, down from 4.4 per cent in the previous…
The federal government is expanding its return-to-office mandate for public employees. As of May 4, executives in the federal public service will be required to…
With the new year may come new resolutions — or at least topics to keep in mind — for capital accumulation plan sponsors. Ongoing compliance…
An article on the suspension of the board chair at the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan was the most-read article on BenefitsCanada.com…