Within Canada and around the world, the conversion of DB plans to DC plans has been accelerating as plan sponsors look to reduce their pension risk.
Blair Richards’ ability to build consensus and lead strong teams has been a driving factor behind the success of the Halifax Port ILA/HEA Pension Plan.
If you want to successfully connect with your DC plan members when explaining changes to the plan, you need to bring everything back to one question: What’s in it for me?
Sponsors of DC and other capital accumulation plans have long struggled to persuade their employees to take full advantage of corporate savings programs and play a more active role in their own retirement readiness.
After Colleen Falco, director of HR services with Niagara Casinos, assumed responsibility for the company’s benefits initiatives in early 2010, she noticed significant gaps in the way employees interacted with the company’s pension plan.
When Alberta Health Services (AHS) was formed in 2008 as an amalgamation of the province’s former health regions, it had a difficult task: consolidate the benefits and pension program for approximately 90,000 employees spread across Alberta and based in close to three dozen sites.
Communications professionals often stress the need to relay a message seven times in seven different ways to get a point across.
Forest City Fire Protection & Security was the recipient of the Communications Award (<1,000 employees) for Benefits Canada’s 2011 Pension & Investment Awards. As a small, privately owned company operating in a construction industry dominated by large multinational organizations, Forest City Fire Protection & Security is always on the hunt for solutions to give it […]
Employers looking to attract and retain the best gen Y talent can start by learning to speak their language—and this doesn’t have to mean signing off emails with “g2g-ttyl.”
Communicating your benefits plan to employees in a way they understand and will act upon can be challenging. And if employees feel their employers don’t understand or appreciate their needs, that disengagement can be costly.