{"id":19863,"date":"2020-10-15T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/two-b-c-employers-join-caats-dbplus-pension-151103"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:15:24","slug":"two-b-c-employers-join-caats-dbplus-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/two-b-c-employers-join-caats-dbplus-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Two B.C. employers join CAAT\u2019s DBplus pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BritishColumbiaFlag66360866_l-123RF.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"123rf.com\/photoroman\" title=\"Two B.C. employers join CAAT\u2019s DBplus pension\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 15, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Two employers from British Columbia\u2019s not-for-profit sector are the latest to join the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan\u2019s DBplus.<\/p>\n<p>Effective Oct. 1, 53 full-time and six part-time staff at the Vancouver Foundation and four full-time and two part-time employees at the British Columbia Unclaimed Property Society became members of the defined benefit pension plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/share-joining-caats-dbplus-pension-plan-127359\">SHARE joining CAAT\u2019s DBPlus pension plan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to provide our hard-working team the best possible solutions for a secure, stable retirement,\u201d said Kevin McCort, president and chief executive officer at the Vancouver Foundation. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be partnering with CAAT to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Alena Levitz, executive director at the B.C. Unclaimed Property Society, added that DBplus allows access for smaller organizations to offer&nbsp;employees the security of a DB plan. \u201cIt was an ideal fit for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Since DBplus was made available to all Canadian workplaces in 2019, members from more than 30 employers have joined.&nbsp;The plan now has members from nine different industries and has support and participation from 14 different labour unions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/members-of-torstars-eight-db-pension-plans-agree-to-join-caat-119566\">Members of Torstar\u2019s eight DB pension plans agree to join CAAT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/two-b-c-employers-join-caats-dbplus-pension-151103\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;October 15, 2020 Two employers from British Columbia\u2019s not-for-profit sector are the latest to join the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan\u2019s DBplus. Effective Oct. 1, 53 full-time and six part-time&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}