With the topic of mental health becoming a key focus for both employees and employers, companies are searching for new ways to support their employees’ health and wellbeing.
For the University of Manitoba, this came in the form of enhanced benefit offerings for full- and part-time employees, with the most notable enhancement being an increase in mental health coverage.
Before the changes, which became available on April 1, employees had access to $500 to be shared among all paramedical practitioners. Now, full-time employees have access to $1,000 annual mental health coverage, alongside $500 for each of four paramedical categories: chiropractic, massage therapy, physiotherapy, and alternative medicine.
