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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are there benefit plans for seniors now that retirement is a thing of the past and more employees in Canada are working over the age of 65? Baby boomers […]
This last month Benefits Canada asked the question, “Are massage therapy benefits for employee worthwhile?” The question comes up frequently as many benefits plan sponsors are being pressured to deal with rising drug costs […]