Pamela Glendinning

The claims experience I am seeing is showing an increased usage in Psychologists and Social Workers.  Which means more employers are calling me and asking what is available for their employees? Recently I came across this article from Benefits Canada; 75% of Canadians want employers to address mental-health problems at work: survey. There are several…

Please join me in Welcoming Baby Leddy to this amazing world.  Leddy could not be luckier to have been born to Carrigan & Carter.  As most of you would have guessed Carrigan has worked with me for several years and is off on Maternity Leave. Beautiful Leddy arrived at 3:25am on March 19th.  She was…

If you don't know what this is, you are one of the lucky ones.  For those of you who do know what this is or are navigating the ever changing world of health care, I hope this Blog will help. FreeStyle Libre is: "Flash glucose monitoring allows you to conveniently check your glucose with a…

As I mentioned in my blog last week, Carrigan is off on maternity leave.  She will be missed. Some of you will remember that I have horseshoes in an uncomfortable location... :) I would like to introduce Louise Boisvert. Louise worked with me several years ago and has come back to join me.  Although Louise…

  I am excited to announce that Carrigan and her partner are expecting their first child and she will be going on maternity leave Friday, March 4th.  Although I will miss working with her, I am so excited as she enters into her new adventure.  Please join me in wishing Carrigan all the best on…

I am seeing these signs up in a lot of places. My clients are saying the same thing, we need more people. In my previous Blog, I pulled an article from infonews.ca that mentioned there are 21,000 job openings in the Thompson-Okanagan. My question is, what are you doing to stand out? Employee Benefits and…

Every year the Dentists come back to Insurance Companies and tell them what increase they require.  These increases affect the Employer, since you ultimately pay the premium for your Employees. As you will notice from the attachment from Empire Life, BC has the largest increase in all of Canada.  This is the second year in…

  I spent some time this weekend with several other Business Owners. Our conversation kept coming back to finding employees.  They were past the point of asking for good employees, they just need people to show up for work. We talked about the how they value their employees. Some of the companies were lucky enough…

Happy New Year! As we enter into 2022, most of my clients are talking about retaining and hiring employees.  How can we stand out from the rest of the Employer's out there? Employee Benefits and RRSPs are a couple areas that are worth looking at.  Even if you already offer them, reviewing your current plans…