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In August 2011, the B.C. Court of Appeal held that pension benefits received by an employee during the reasonable notice period were not to be deducted from wrongful dismissal damages.

Pension plans were all over the front pages in 2014. We expect that to continue through 2015. Here are a few things we are watching in Quebec:

In response to perceived concerns about the lack of understanding of the risks associated with investments in derivatives, the FSCO has developed guidelines for pension plans investing in derivatives and similar financial instruments.

The Federal Court of Appeal recently weighed in to reconcile competing tests on the proper way to determine whether an individual is a contractor or truly an employee.

On March 19, 2019, Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled in the House of Commons the Liberal Government's fourth budget, Investing in the Middle Class ("Budget 2019").

In response to Ontario’s new regime for dividing pensions on marriage breakdown, which permits the former spouse of a plan member to receive an immediate payment of his or her share of the member's pension and requires plan administrators to calculate the value of the pension, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) has released draft versions of the prescribed forms that must be used in the pension division process.

On May 2, 2022, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued a notice regarding new instruction guides that will be of interest to administrators of pension plans registered under...

On February 4, 2022, the Department of Finance released for public comment a set of draft legislative proposals to implement previously announced tax measures.

The issue of whether plan fees are too high, which I write about regularly, will not go away.

Spousal support, sometimes referred to as maintenance or alimony, are funds that are paid to one spouse to another upon separation or a divorce.

Dans cet épisode du balado Volumes d'affaires de Blakes, nos associés Bonny Murray et Jeff Sommers discutent des stratégies essentielles pour réduire les risques associés aux régimes de retraite enregistrés.

In a lengthy decision released yesterday in respect of Indalex Limited, which had been operating under the protection of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Ontario Court of Appeal found that the Ontario Pension Benefits Act (PBA) imposes a deemed trust over the full amount of any funding deficiency that exists when a pension plan is wound up.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has been with us since March 2020, in many cases we are just now starting to see case decisions relating to COVID-19-specific issues like mandatory testing of employees

As many Canadian employers continue to amend the terms of pension and benefit plans, class action proceedings continue to be brought by current and former employees.

The federal government has amended the pension fund investment rules under Schedule III to the "Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985". The change came into effect on July 1, 2010.

A number of summaries in relation to the latest employment updates.

The plan administrator's fiduciary obligations to the plan in the context of ESG issues...