January 2021
Your information on the COVID-19 pandemic
On this page, you will find all the articles, documents and events that will help you understanding total rewards in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Health, wellness and performance
- Compensation and bonuses
- Group benefits
- Pension plans
- Savings plans and investment consulting
- Communication
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Health, wellness and performance
Contact the health team | Contact the performance team
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Mental health approach
- Disability management
- Virtual healthcare implementation
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Telework performance management
Compensation and bonuses
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Salary management in the event of temporary layoffs
- Oversight of government help programs
- Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Program (SUBP)
- Salary increase management
- Variable compensation management
- Sales compensation management
Articles and documents:
- PDF download: Updates on compensation and employment benefits in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 survey results as of March 17, 2020
- Salary increases in times of crises
- Three sales force compensation practices to uphold in times of crisis
- Compensation practices in times of crisis: Emergency measures and business recovery
- Compensation practices in times of crisis: a look ahead
Group benefits
Contact the group benefits team
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Short-term disability insurance
- Temporary layoffs
- Health care outside Canada
- Trip cancellation insurance
- Services for expatriates
- In-pharmacy services
- Premium holiday
- Renewal postponement
- Grace periods for premium payments
Articles and documents:
Pension plans
Contact the pension and savings team | Contact the pension plan administration team
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Communications to members
- Pension benefits administration in the context of downsizing
- Forecasts of plan financial situations
- Forecasts of plan book values for financial statement purposes
- Funding and risk management strategies
Articles and documents:
- COVID-19: Retraite Québec’s temporary easing measures and the fiduciary duties of pension plan administrators
- Ontario registered pension plans: Temporary relief measures for employers
- COVID-19 relief measures: OSFI lifts the freeze on transfer value payments
- Draft regulation to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Quebec-registered pension plans
- Ontario registered pension plans: Temporary relief measures to ease administrative burden
Spring 2020
- COVID-19 relief measures: OSFI suspends the payment of transfer values
- COVID-19 response for Ontario registered plans
- Quebec and Federal government announce relief measures for pension plans
- Ontario registered pension plans: Limitations on transfers and actuarial valuation disclosures
- Federal pension plans: Solvency payment requirement moratorium rules have been released
Savings plans and investment consulting
Contact the pension and savings team | Contact the investment consulting team
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Performance measurement report
- Underperformance analysis of investment managers
- Rebalancing policy review
Articles and documents:
- Revue des marchés : Un trimestre à oublier… mais dont on se rappellera! (information in French only)
Communication
Contact the communication team
Specialized services for unusual events and situations:
- Customizable return-to-work communication solutions (after shutdowns, layoffs, pay and/or work schedule cuts, etc.)
- Change management and change communication
- Stakeholder analysis and engagement
- Crisis communication