Today, the Ontario government issued a regulation extending the infectious disease leave available under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) until January 2, 2021. What does this mean for employers? In summary, from March 1, 2020 to January 2, 2021: A non-unionized employee whose employer has temporarily reduced or eliminated their hours of work [...]
Chris was invited to review and comment on the new IMC Cost Drivers Analysis of Private Drug Plans in Canada (2016-2019) with a handful of successful benefit consultants, in a series of virtual meetings. The meeting was intended to get our input on the new data and to answer some focused questions on key findings [...]
Recently, we looked at our client renewals from 2019, to question cost escalations based on Insurer trend factor surveys. These surveys suggested that benefit cost increases for health/dental were 8%-10% per annum. This number was the sticker price/MSRP, not the real rate of change. In 2019, we showed a +0.8% annual increase across all benefit [...]
Great article by Cassandra Williamson-Hopp on the moves taken by Ontario Power Generation in the area of virtual care. Providing leading edge benefits for their insured members and dependents is clearly a priority and we to see the uptake of these services as a landscape changer. For our part, we are recommending free services like [...]
Cassandra Williamson-Hopp | May 15, 2020 - Benefits Canada Quotes from Chris Pryce - Human Capital Benefits In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, virtual health care is taking center stage. But Ontario Power Generation was ahead of the curve, introducing a pilot project in 2019 to help employees with high mental-health incidences and absenteeism [...]
