COVID-19 Crisis: Impacts on Labour and the Pensions and Benefits Industry
COVID-19 is having a significant impact on workers and unions, as well as on the pension and benefit plans they rely on. Emergency relief measures are being proposed and implemented by regulators, all levels of government, and various private sector actors.
Koskie Minsky is actively monitoring these issues and will be posting regular updates about new information and developments that are relevant to our clients and other stakeholders in labour and in the pensions and benefits industry.
Please check back often to see the latest.
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- February 2, 2021 - CRA ISSUES TEMPORARY COVID-19 RELIEF MEASURES – SIMPLIFIED CLAIM FOR HOME EXPENSES FOR 2020 TAXATION YEAR
- June 8, 2020 - CRA allows COVID related extension of carry forward rules for health care spending accounts
- May 25, 2020 - FSRA Releases Guidance on Commuted Value Transfers and Annuity Purchases for DB Plans
- May 25, 2020 - Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal Releases Best Practices Guidelines for Teleconference Hearings
- May 13, 2020 - Federal Government decides no CERB top-ups from Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans
- May 12, 2020 - Federal Wage Subsidy Backgrounder
- April 29, 2020 - FSRA Releases Guidance Regarding Ongoing Impact of COVID-19
- April 27, 2020 - Hearings still “ZOOM-ing” along
- April 24, 2020 - Canada’s Pension Regulators Release New Measures in Response to COVID-19
- April 17, 2020 - FSRA posts financial hardship withdrawal criteria amid Covid-19 Pandemic
- April 13, 2020 - WSIB – Employer Relief Package
- April 3, 2020 - Provincial Pension Regulators Release Statements on the Impact of COVID-19 on Pension Plans
- April 3, 2020 - Operations at the WSIB and the WSIAT
- April 1, 2020 - WSIB Policy on Claims due to COVID-19
- March 30, 2020 - OSFI Issues Letter on COVID-19 to Federally Regulated Pension Plans
- March 26, 2020 - FSRA Releases Statement on the Impact of COVID-19 on Pension Plans
- March 26, 2020 - COVID-19: Employment-Related FAQ’s for Trade Unions and Their Members