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Navigating your Employee Benefits: A Guide for Employees

Do you have a new job at a new company? Did you spend an hour with your company’s HR representative as part of your onboarding day and then forget all about what benefits you have? Fear not; this is common! If you’re under a year old in your...
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Navigating Disability Management: Balancing Organizational Needs with Genuine Care

Managing a productive workforce is a complex challenge for HR professionals. You are tasked with not just hiring and retaining the best talent but also ensuring that your employees are healthy and fully engaged at work. Disability leave, while...
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Creating employee loyalty with empathetic disability management

Within your employee benefits program, are you taking a proactive approach to disability management? This fosters workplace inclusion and enhances overall employee trust and satisfaction. When companies prioritize early intervention and personalized...
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The "carrot and carrot" approach in Canadian employee benefits

Canada's healthcare and employee benefits don’t reflect the traditional "carrot and stick" approach of using rewards to encourage desired behaviours while using penalties to deter undesired ones. Instead, what we see is a "carrot and carrot" system,...
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