MP Benefits Perspective

It’s all about risk and risk mitigation How about getting that new hire onto the benefit plan? A failure to properly advise a new employee regarding enrolment on the benefit plan can place the corporation in a liability situation. In Grams v. Maple Leaf Metal, an...

Some Answers ARE NOT the solution

In meeting with a prospective client, I was reminded sometimes receiving an answer in no way offers the solution they needed. How many times do we face a situation where: We didn’t know what we didn’t know? Don’t know how to ask the right question to get to the...

Where’s the Lather?

Imagine you are wherever you purchase toiletries. In the aisles there are rows, upon rows of shampoos. Every make is available. Prices vary. Colour and bottle configuration help to market and catch the buyer’s eye. How does the consumer decide? And once they decide,...

Benefits

Questioning Alberta’s Bill 43 and Benefits

While the holistic approach to Alberta’s Bill 43, the “Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act, 2020” as it relates to amending the Worker’s Compensation Act seems sound, it does leave some consulting questions regarding its impact to those organizations with a...

PPE | Costs to you

Remember the little rhyme we recite to toddlers to teach them the names of their body parts…fingers and toes…eyes—ears—mouth—and nose. Now, I think this is in reference to remembering all of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) necessary for the day-to-day jobs in...

COVID-19 Mail Disruption … Digital Alternatives

If mail delivery is delayed or suspended, we all need to be prepared. Employers Administration: Use the on-line portals provided by each insurer and benefit provider for billing and reporting. If you are not already signed up for these services, please proceed with...

Compensation

Telephone Pre-Screening Questions

Contribution from Alison McMahon, Co-founder and CEO of twofold, a human resources consultant Pre-screening allows the employer to determine if the candidate’s qualifications, experience, workplace preferences and salary expectations are in line with the position and...

Dying

It’s my first time dying, I’m just trying to get use to it, she said in a forced, flippant voice as we got to the heart of why she was calling. Her words faltered and she coughed. This is certainly not the type of call I ever expected to take. You see, when the call...

Plus Tax

My poor son. In an effort to teach financial literacy to my nine-year-old, I had him go through the process of setting up his own account. Yes, we had set an account up for each of our children when they were born; however, going through the experience of setting up...

Culture

The WRATH of COVID-19

When John Steinbeck spoke about his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, he is quoted as saying; “Throughout, I’ve tried to make the reader participate in the actuality, what he takes from it will be scaled on his own depth and shallowness. There are five layers in this book,...

The exit interview…what NOT to forget when it comes to benefits

Terminations happen. Employees change occupations and leave and if you hire, chances are you fire - with or without cause. Documentation all along the process is essential and never more than when an employee exits employment. When it comes to terminations employers...

What does Failure look like?

If you’re successful in business, you know failure. If it’s just the result you’re looking for, you’ll never make it. Hard work, effort and tenacity pays through the stepping stones of multiple, repetitive failure which translate into learning opportunities. I was...