COVID presented us all with new workplace realities.  What did we learn?  What changed legally? What insights did we gain about developing more effective and attractive workplaces and more effective and attractive pension and benefit arrangements to give our organizations an advantage in terms of cost efficiencies, responsiveness and attracting and retaining talent?  This interactive session will explore these themes from both a legal and a management perspective.

Who should attend?

• Plan sponsors, plan administrators, and expert advisors including consultants, actuaries and lawyers.

Key Take-aways

• identify and understand workplace changes brought about or accelerated by COVID
• legal and legislative implications for pension and benefit plans
• leadership and decision-making approaches to managing the legal, financial, labour and employee relations aspects of pension and benefit plans emerging from changes to the workplace and the legal environment.

Speaker

Randy Bauslaugh

Counsel

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Randy co-chairs McCarthy Tétrault’s National Pensions, Benefits & Executive Compensation practice and its National Pension Funds Group.  He has provided legal advice on a wide range of pension and benefit matters, and has represented clients in many of the leading pension and benefit cases over the past 40 years.  Randy is also a frequent speaker in Canada and internationally on pension and benefit plan topics.  As an independent benefits plan trustee and a board member of employers that provide pension and benefit plans, Randy not only gives legal advice, but he is also a consumer of legal advice.  He believes his experience as both an advice seeker and an advice giver can provide insight that may enable his clients and audiences to be better decision-makers and leaders