CRA – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:24:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 What employers need to know about determining remote workers’ province of employment https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/bencan/what-employers-need-to-know-about-determining-remote-workers-province-of-employment/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:00:31 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=153199 The Canada Revenue Agency’s guidance for determining a full-time remote worker’s province of employment for payroll deduction purposes, which came into force on Jan. 1, could prove burdensome to employers. “While the intention is to create certainty, whether it will do so remains to be seen,” says Sarah Mills, an employment lawyer at Blaney McMurtry […]

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]]> How are employers supporting the big shift to remote work? https://www.benefitscanada.com/news/bencan/how-employers-are-supporting-the-big-shift-to-remote-work/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:52:23 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=96470 For years, many employees had ad hoc, work-from-home arrangements with their employers. Then came the coronavirus pandemic, which kicked the shift to remote working into overdrive, forcing employers to spring into action to find ways to best use group benefits plans to support their employees through the change. As a result, employers came up with […]

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]]> Feds revising legislation on conversion of health and welfare trusts https://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/benefits-law/feds-revising-legislation-on-conversion-of-health-and-welfare-trusts/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/benefits-law/feds-revising-legislation-on-conversion-of-health-and-welfare-trusts/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2020 04:50:14 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/feds-revising-legislation-on-conversion-of-health-and-welfare-trusts/ The federal government has published revised draft legislation for the Income Tax Act that would facilitate the conversion of existing health and welfare trusts into employee life and health trusts by 2022. The latest draft legislation follows an initial proposal in the government’s 2018 budget and draft legislative proposals released in May 2019. It noted that the […]

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]]> https://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/benefits-law/feds-revising-legislation-on-conversion-of-health-and-welfare-trusts/feed/ 0 Considerations for DC plan sponsors before suspending employer contributions https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/dc-investments/considerations-for-dc-pension-plans-before-waiving-1-minimum-contribution-requirement/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/dc-investments/considerations-for-dc-pension-plans-before-waiving-1-minimum-contribution-requirement/#respond Mon, 11 May 2020 06:57:17 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/considerations-for-dc-pension-plans-before-waiving-1-minimum-contribution-requirement/ The Canada Revenue Agency is waiving the minimum one per cent employer contribution requirement for defined contribution pension plans for the rest of 2020. To take advantage of the contribution relief, employers must amend their DC plans to suspend accruals for the year, meaning no employer or employee contributions can be made. Further, DC plan […]

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