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The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that pension benefits received by a dismissed employee are not to be deducted from an award of wrongful dismissal damages.

With the Ontario government soon to return from its summer hiatus, the A. M. Pension blog also returns.

On November 17, 2011, the federal government introduced for first reading Bill C-25 An Act relating to pooled registered pension plans and making related amendments to other Acts

In recent years, Canadian pension standards legislation has been in, what seems to be, a constant state of change.

In this post, we discuss the amendments in the new Employment Pension Plans Act and the accompanying Employment Pension Plans Regulation.

The federal government followed up on its promise in this year’s budget to implement pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs) "as soon as possible", with the release of a consultation paper (the Paper) that considers the potential tax rules for PRPPs.

On November 15, 2011 Nova Scotia introduced Bill 96, An Act Respecting Pension Benefits, for first reading. If passed, the current Nova Scotia Pension Benefits Act would be repealed and replaced in its entirety by Bill 96.

The Québec legislator recently amended the Supplemental Pension Plans Act (SPPA) to negate the potential impact of the decision rendered by the Québec Court of Appeal in the Multi‑Marques case.

Toronto, September 9, 2010 — McCarthy Tétrault is pleased to announce that Randy V. Bauslaugh has joined the firm as a partner and the national leader of the firm's Pensions, Benefits and Executive Compensation practice. Mr. Bauslaugh brings unsurpassed expertise and experience in these areas to the firm’s clients across the country.

Plan fiduciaries have become more aggressive in their attempts to recover mistaken overpayments to retirees.

After years of low interest rates, and correspondingly high solvency liabilities, there's growing recognition that the solvency funding model is broken.

The valuation and division of pension entitlements on marriage breakdown is a complex issue for members and administrators of defined benefit pension plans in Ontario.

In Extendicare Lynde Creek Retirement Home Residence and United Food & Commercial Workers Canada, Local 175, Arbitrator Stephen Raymond issued a consent award...

Effective December 31, 2010, revisions were made by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) to its "Standards of Practice – Practice-Specific Standards for Pension Plans".

Retirement compensation arrangements (RCAs) are, in appropriate circumstances, a useful tool for employers to provide supplemental pension benefits to employees, but such arrangements come at a cost of refundable tax under the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the ITA).

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a law firm partnership's mandatory retirement policy in McCormick v. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, 2014 SCC 39. In doing so the Court found that the partner was not an "employee" entitled to age discrimination protection under the British Columbia Human Rights Code (the "Code").

Target benefits are a plan design option that include attributes of both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plans.