Employee Benefits Blog by Benefit Strategies Inc.

In this employee benefits blog, our financial planners and benefits brokers offer insightful articles about group benefits plans designed for medium-sized businesses with 10 or more employees. You’ll find blog posts on long term disability and healthcare rates plus, among others, digital health plans, employee assistance programs, managing employee wellness, and cost-effective benefits management.

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    June 20, 2017

    Introducing League Health Insurance Benefits

    Benefit Strategies Inc. is proud to offer its customers access to League Health Insurance Benefits – an employee benefits plan that can be customized through the League digital health app! League Health Insurance […]

  • News, Retirement Planning
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    June 20, 2017

    Canada Pension Plan – Will It Be There When You Retire?

    Canada Pension Plan – Will It Be There When You Retire? In this post, Benefit Strategies Inc. in Edmonton Alberta takes a look at how Canadians feel about retirement and some troubling statistics about the state […]

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    May 10, 2017

    Medical Marijuana Added to Shoppers & Loblaws Benefits Plan

    Medical Marijuana Added to Shoppers & Loblaws Benefits Plan Canadian drug benefit plans continually need to evolve to meet the needs of employees. In recent news, Shoppers Drug Mart and Loblaws Canada have now added medical […]

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    May 1, 2017

    Creating a Workplace Culture That Motivates Employees

    Have you thought about creating a workplace culture that is positive and motivates your employees? Are you continually losing employees or having difficulty hiring new ones, or have you […]

  • Benefits Broker, Employee Benefits, Retirement Planning
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    February 17, 2017

    When Employees Delay Retirement It Affects Benefits Plans

    The changing demographics of the workforce have seen an increased number of employees delay retirement and work beyond the retirement age we had grown accustomed to. Some seniors […]

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    January 27, 2017

    Salveo Study on Workplace Mental Health Strategies

    At a mental health summit in Toronto, a Manulife consultant presented some surprising results about a study on improving workplace mental health, which was conducted by Salveo Integrative Health. […]

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    November 18, 2016

    Workplace Wellbeing – Top Goals of Global Employers

    Conducted biannually by Xerox HR Services, a new global survey on workplace wellbeing collected data from 33 countries and across 428 different organizations revealing some surprising statistics for […]

  • Benefits Broker
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    October 26, 2016

    5 Benefits of Working with an Employee Benefits Broker

    Are you considering implementing an employee benefits plan in your workplace? Before starting to evaluate any employee benefits plan, here are 5 benefits of working with an Employee […]

  • Employee Benefits
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    October 17, 2016

    Millennials Willing To Pay More For Workplace Health Benefits

    Millennials are an altogether different breed than the genXers or boomers that preceded them. According to a Benefits Canada article, A third of Millennials would pay more for […]

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    September 26, 2016

    What Are Taxable Employee Benefits?

    Recently Benefits Canada asked the question, “When are employee benefits taxable?” The article suggests that deciding whether a benefit provided to employees is taxable is often not as easy as it […]