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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United Kingdom | Publication | October 2023
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published an update to its guidance on Regulated Apportionment Arrangements (RAAs), replacing its earlier guidance published in 2010 and its subsequent 2017 ‘quick guide’.
An RAA enables an employer facing inevitable insolvency to apportion its liabilities under a defined benefit scheme to another participating employer(s) and cease participation in the scheme, which will then enter the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). There are a number of regulatory requirements to be met including TPR approval and the PPF must not object to it.
The updated TPR guidance, while mostly aligned with TPR’s current approach, is more detailed than earlier guidance and places a stronger focus on the criteria needed for RAA approval.
TPR has emphasised:
The guidance sets out the following principles that will need to be satisfied and how this can be evidenced:
The guidance also states that:
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Since 2022, the Government of Canada has introduced three waves of amendments to the Competition Act (Act), making substantive changes to Canada’s competition laws, with the most recent amendments receiving royal assent on June 20, 2024.
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