Yesterday the Ontario Deputy Superintendent of Pensions released a formal statement that included the comment: “these are interesting times in the pension sector.” How true.
Many long-anticipated improvements to Ontario pension legislation, regulation and policies are finally coming into force. The pension regulator will have more specific, helpful powers to target
Read More →The countdown is on.
Over the weekend the Toronto Star and the CBC each published stories detailing what Ontarians can expect to see in the long awaited final report from the Changing Workplaces Review when it is released later this month. Citing unnamed government sources, the media outlets report
Read More →Pension plan sponsors and administrators have much to anticipate with the release of the 2017 Ontario Budget: A Stronger, Healthier Ontario (Budget) on April 27, 2017. The Budget provides updates to several pension reform initiatives that many stakeholders have been waiting for, as well as new proposals aimed at benefiting
Read More →Are you an employer who is uncertain about what you should be doing to prepare for the changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)? This guide will help you.
The changes were announced by the federal government a year ago, and formal rules became law at the end of 2016. Unlike
Read More →In a recent decision, the Honourable Justice Marrocco of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice denied the request of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 and Robert Kinnear (the “Applicants”) to restrain the TTC from conducting the random drug and alcohol testing of its employees.
The random testing applies to TTC
Read More →The Federal government announced in the budget that it intends to “stretch” employment insurance (“EI”) parental leave benefits to up to 18 months at a lower benefit rate of 33% of average weekly earnings (find that announcement here, at page 65). That raises the question: what is the employer’s
Read More →In a July 2016 decision, Providence Health Care v. Dunkley, 2016 BCSC 1383, the British Columbia Supreme Court held that Providence Health Care (PHC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) failed to establish that the costs of providing interpreter services for a deaf medical resident constituted undue hardship.
The decision
Read More →A series of Ontario cases dating back to 2012 has put into issue the question of what does, or doesn’t, make a termination provision enforceable. After a number of recent employer-friendly decisions, the Ontario Court of Appeal has weighed in with a decision that contains some good news, and some
Read More →Any person who is the “spouse” of a member of a registered pension plan in Canada has rights regarding the pension entitlement of his or her partner. That important policy has been entrenched in pension legislation for decades. Exactly who is a “spouse”? The answer to that question has recently
Read More →As we close out the first month of 2017, we thought it appropriate to briefly review the cases which caught our eye in 2016 in 140 characters or less:
Canadian National Occupational Classification
Pay Equity Commission
US – Standard Occupational Classification