Watch out for a cut in your income as
the workplace pension contribution increases next tax year
Firstly, governments only give you a tax credit on your CPP employee contribution, rather than a tax deduction like you get on your RRSP contribution or
your workplace pension contribution.
Not exact matches
On April 6, the minimum
contribution rate for workers automatically enrolled in qualified
workplace pension plans under the auto - enrollment (AE) program increased from 2 percent (split equally among employers and employees) to 5 percent of covered earnings (2 percent is paid by employers and 3 percent by employees).
Instead of
pension plans, some
workplaces may offer group RRSP or Tax - Free Savings Account (TFSA) programs, in which employers match
contributions made by employees up to a set limit.
At a time when private sector employers are generally watering down
workplace pensions (if offered at all), your employer is required to fully match your CPP
contribution.
The Conservatives warn the Ontario plan will amount to a job - killing payroll tax because it will require
contributions from employers and workers in any company that does not have a
workplace pension.
The PRPP (pooled registered
pension plan) is a more recent
workplace pension program that behaves more like a defined -
contribution plan, but is by no means universal and places investment risk on the shoulders of plan participants.
In a typical
workplace pension, the employer (and often the employee) makes
contributions while the employee is working, and that money is earmarked to pay benefits due in retirement.
The first wave will see full - time and part - time workers at large companies with more than 500 employees and no comparable
workplace pension plan start mandatory
contributions as of Jan. 1, 2017.
Roughly 32 % of Canadians have a
workplace pension plan, of which a smaller percentage have a defined benefit
pension plan (versus defined
contribution) which guarantees certain payouts in retirement.
Medium employers (with 50 - 499 employees) without registered
workplace pension plans start
contributions Jan. 1, 2018.
In this column I'll take a careful look at the pros and cons of both types of
workplace retirement savings plans, and you should prepare to be surprised: In many ways the group RRSPs and defined
contribution (DC) plans which are usually regarded as the poor cousins of the traditional defined benefit (DB)
pensions actually come out ahead.
Another major initiative is the Ontario Registered
Pension Plan (ORPP), a compulsory defined benefit plan requiring equal 1.9 % employee and employer
contributions (up to income of $ 90,000) for
workplaces without employer
pensions.
an announcement to introduce framework legislation in the Fall for the introduction of Pooled Registered
Pension Plans — workplace defined contribution pension plans administered by financial institutions instead of emp
Pension Plans —
workplace defined
contribution pension plans administered by financial institutions instead of emp
pension plans administered by financial institutions instead of employers;
Comparable
workplace pension plans are registered
pension plans that meet a minimum benefit /
contribution threshold:
Letter to the Prime Minister asks the federal government to address a gap in the Canada
Pension Plan by requiring workers» compensation boards to make CPP
contributions on behalf of those unable to because of
workplace injury.
Similar to the recent rollout of the
workplace pension opt - out, could a government - backed auto - enrolment scheme for wellbeing programmes — funded by employers and by a portion of employees» National Insurance
contributions — be one of the solutions to address the NHS's long - term financial needs?
Additional highlights • 63 per cent of resource and mining employers are not actively hiring new graduates despite reports of a growing skills shortage • 2016 salary increases for resource and mining professionals are more modest than the previous year, with 21 % reporting no increases compared to eight per cent in the previous year • Almost three quarters (73 %) of oil and gas employees experience moderate to extreme
workplace pressure due to the lack of employees and skills present • Work from home options,
pension / RRSP
contributions and flexible work hours are the top - three incentives oil and gas employers want to add in an effort to attract talent About Hays Canada: Hays Specialist Recruitment Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hays plc, which has been at the forefront of the global recruitment industry for over thirty - five years.