Fast Answers to Your CPP and QPP Questions

Once again, we bring you a new edition of Your Canada Pension Plan 2012 and Your Quebec Pension Plan 2012. These popular, well-planned booklets reflect all amendments to date on the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan.
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Written in plain language by pension experts, topics covered in each pocket-sized guide include:

• Pensions and Work After 65
• Retirement and Disability Pensions
• Old Age Security Pension
• Taxation of CPP/OAS Benefits
• And much more...

Designed to save you time and to ensure your employees are informed, features include a detailed Table of Contents and a comprehensive Index, providing you and your employees with easy access to answers to commonly asked questions.

Publication date: February, 2012

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This publication is designed to save you time when you need information. It's the first publication in Canada to give you a searchable database on both benefits and pensions in a CD-ROM or Internet format. With this Guide, you'll have the most comprehensive library available for employment benefits and pensions in Canada. Just look over the topics covered below and you'll see that this unique publication includes all the information you need in one convenient-to-access source.

Includes monthly newsletter, Canadian Employment Benefits and Pensions Guide Newsletter.

With the launch of the new Internet platform, the updates to your research library are delivered immediately from the editors' desktop to you. The CD and looseleaf subscriptions are updated monthly.

Topics Covered

• Government Sponsored Pension Plans
• Employer Plans – Standards Legislation
• Tax Issues – Employer Sponsored Plans
• Registered Retirement Savings Plans
• How to Set Up a Plan
• Plan Administration
• Social Security Agreements
• Employee Benefits
• Executive and Incentive Compensation
• Flex Benefits and Work Practices
• Pre-Retirement Counseling
• Legislation
• Releases, Bulletins, Policies
• Full text of Laws & Regulations for federal and provincial Pension Legislation
• Pension Appeals Board cases and recent case digests (CCH is the only publisher that carries PAB cases! Pension Appeal Board sends only to us to publish – cases go back as far as 1960's in the electronic format)

Features

• This product's information, analysis and current news will help you develop and administer benefit and pension plans.
• It will keep you up-to-date on information pertaining to benefits and pension contributions.
• The immediate retrieval (in the electronic version) of information, instant links from section to section and program to program, and the extensive information and research resources of CCH, make it an indispensable addition to your HR library.
• This guide describes thoroughly the types of plans available and includes a design criteria and registration information you can use to implement in your organization.
• Conveniently organized commentary and charts help you with the plan's day-today administration.
• For your convenience, relevant tax issues are easily referenced and explanatory commentary is consolidated alongside Revenue Canada Information Bulletins and Circulars, and Guides.
• Enjoy access to information on a full range of employee benefits, including group insurance plans, bonuses, workers' compensation and employment insurance.

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Full Article

Whether you have to handle a CPP or OAS claim, calculate and remit withholdings on employee compensation, or ascertain the employment status of a contractor, Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 14th Edition, 2015 is for you. This handy work is the only portable, one-stop resource in this area for professionals on the go.

The section-by-section annotations and exhaustive cross sections throughout give you expert commentary and explanations of the legislative provisions, the regulations, and court and tribunal decisions regarding CPP and OAS issues. The book also offers up-to-date coverage of pending legislation and new cases, as well as key decisions of the Pension Appeals Board.

Highlights of new information in the 14th Edition include:

• Amendments implemented by the Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act (Bill C-38), including a summary of the new appeal regime and annotations to the provisions creating the Social Security Tribunal
• All significant Federal Court of Appeal decisions on vital issues such as whether a per diem compensation rate is ‘‘fixed and ascertainable’’ (MNR (Canada) v. Ontario); right to appeal on CPP matters from the Tax Court of Canada (Davitt); online accessibility for claimants (Jodhan); interest award where erroneous information given by the Minister (Bartlett); approach of tribunal where claimant doesn’t appear (Evans); need to refer to every piece of evidence (Simpson and Brennan); motions in the Federal Court of Appeal (McMeekin); evidence on judicial review (McLaughlin); and extension of time (Daoud).
• Important Federal Court decisions, including new authority on when written reasons for granting leave to appeal to the PAB are mandatory
• Updated dollar amounts for YBE (for general and disability claims), YMPE and other statistics throughout;
• New types of disability claims.

The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C., is an active member of the Pension Appeal Board and retired justice of the Ontario Superior Court. His conference lectures in recent years have been influential in the evolution of CPP disability law.

Andrew James is a legal writer. He is the co-author of Ontario Superior Court Practice (with Mr. Justice Todd Archibald, The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C. and James Morton), and Ontario Family Law Practice (with Justice David Steinberg, Justice Craig Perkins and Esther Lenkinski).

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Fast Answers to Your CPP and QPP Questions

Once again, we bring you a new 2011 edition of the popular Your Québec Pension Plan. Written in plain language by pension experts, topics covered in this pocket-sized guide include:

• Pensions and Work After 65
• Retirement and Disability Pensions
• Old Age Security Pension
• Taxation of CPP/OAS Benefits
• And much more...

Designed to save you time and to ensure your employees are informed, features include a detailed Table of Contents and a comprehensive Index, providing you and your employees with easy access to answers to commonly asked questions.

Publication date: February, 2011

CUSTOMIZED BOOKLET COVER AND QUANTITY ORDERS
The reasonable price and important information provided in this booklet make it a time-saving, quick reference tool to distribute to employees throughout your company. For orders of 100 booklets or more, we can print customized covers that include your company logo at no extra cost. For pricing on custom covers and/or quantity orders, please contact your Account Manager at 1-866-850-7467.

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The Morneau Shepell Summary of Pension Legislation in Canada summarizes, with reference to the relevant sections of the appropriate Act and regulations, the essential provisions of pension standards legislation from all the provinces, as well as the federal PBSA. The Summary is a unique reference tool and an excellent starting point for any research, particularly for multi-jurisdictional plans, highlighting differences in pension standards legislation in force throughout Canada. Included in the materials are over 125 charts, covering various topics, such as:

• Eligibility and vesting
• Contributions and funding
• Accrual during leaves and notice period
• Locking-in and portability
• Death benefits and spousal rights
• Member statements and disclosure
• Governance, investments, and regulatory filings
• Plan changes and wind-ups
• New plan designs…and more

Updated quarterly, this publication also includes summaries of major discussion papers on pension related topics and changes in Canadian pension standards legislation.

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Summary of this eBook

In periods of fluctuating economies and rapidly changing workforces, Pensions and Benefits take on an added importance. In the section on Pensions you will have access to an extensive review of pension legislation and requirements, funding guidelines, and taxation as well as other critical information necessary to help you manage your portfolio through these challenging times. The section on Benefits will guide you through the multitude of choices available, including flex plans and non-traditional benefits, and discuss how each can be used to provide additional value or cost control. In Payroll Processing, you will find an effective, easy-to-navigate reference guide for all your payroll needs.

This eBook has three sections:

• Pensions
• Benefits
• Payroll Processing

About the Authors

Neil Cohen obtained his LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario and was called to the Bar in 1996. He has extensive experience as a research lawyer and writer in the human resources field. He previously worked as a research lawyer with a major consulting firm, and as the Senior Editor of the CCH publication the Canadian Employment Benefits and Pension Guide. Neil is the current editor of the CCH publication PENFACTS: A Guide to Pensions in Canada.

Theo Anne Opie, LL.B. received her LL.B. from the University of Windsor and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She specializes in the areas of Payroll, Human Resources, and Employment Standards law. She has written for such CCH products as the Canadian Labour Law Reporter, Labour Notes, PaySource, and Tax Topics.

"Lauren Bernardi is an excellent speaker who presented a point of view that was believable with real life scenarios."

Bonus: An article on "Nine Steps to Effective Discipline", a copy of the supporting paper and a complete Question and Answer (Q&A) document prepared by the speaker will be provided in this archived webinar.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Be aware of the impact of recessionary times on employee performance
• Recognize the difference between performance issues and disciplinary problems and why it matters
• Understand how to enhance employee performance by setting goals and expectations, and providing meaningful feedback and support
• Recognize the importance of effective disciplinary measures in maintaining efficient operations
• Be capable of handling problem employees: learn how to determine the cause and correct the problem through performance improvement plans, progressive discipline and other management tools

Speaker

Lauren Bernardi

Lauren has been practisin

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The essential publication for anyone dealing with CPP or OAS issues.

Dealing with CPP or OAS questions and concerns can be difficult because of the procedural, evidentiary and substantive issues that inevitably arise. But, when you have your copy of the Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 10th Edition, 2011 handy, dealing with these issues becomes much faster and easier.

The section-by-section annotations provide you with expert commentary, opinions and explanations of the legislative provisions, regulations and court decisions concerning CPP and OAS issues. It also covers pending legislation and new scases, plus the decisions of the Pension Appeals Board and the Review Tribunal.

The Honourable Gordon Killeen, Q.C., of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, is an active member of the Pension Appeal Board. His conference lectures in recent years have been influential in the evolution of CPP disability law.

Andrew James is a legal writer. He is the co-author of Ontario Superior Court Practice (with Mr. Justice Todd Archibald, The Honorable Gordon Killeen, Q.C. and James Morton), and Ontario Family Law Practice (with Justice Craig Perkins and Esther Lenkinski).

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The essential publication for anyone dealing with CPP or OAS issues.

• Coming into force of amendments reducing the contributory requirements for disability benefits for contributors with at least 25 years of contributions
  
• Streamlining of standard of review rules by Supreme Court of Canada
  
  
• Ground-breaking new Federal Court of Appeal decisions on issues such as:
  - capacity to apply for benefits
  - right of Government to be heard on a motion to rescind a final and binding decision
  - admissibility of new medical evidence

• The latest Pension Appeal Board decisions on CPP claims and Review Tribunal decisions on OAS claims, as selected by the experts

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