Ontario Ironworkers/Rodmen Benefit Plan Administrators Corporation

111 Sheppard Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario M2N 6S2

Telephone:
Within Metro Toronto.................................416-223-0383
Anywhere in Canada...............................1-800-387-8075
Fax........................................................416-223-0956

The Ontario Ironworkers/Rodmen Benefit Plan Administrators Corporation was established in 1989 to look after the day-to-day operations of the pension and benefit plans for the Ontario ironworkers and rodworkers. The Administrator provides these services for the participating locals in Windsor, Sarnia, London, Hamilton, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Ste. Sault Marie and Toronto.

The administration staff provides services for more than 5,000 active and retired plan members and their families. The Administrators' duties include the collection of employer contributions, the adjudication of extended health, vision, disability, dental, and travel medical assistance benefits, as well as life and accident insurance. In addition the Administrator provides for the adjudication and payment of pension benefits.

In 1993 the Administrator moved to its present location at 111 Sheppard Avenue East, North York, Ontario M2N 6S2. Located along Toronto's subway system in the heart of North York, the office is conveniently situated for easy access by all. The building is an investment made by the Ironworkers Ontario Pension Fund and the Administrator occupies the entire 12,500 square foot, two story office building.

Pension

If you’re a member of a participating local, you automatically join the pension plan if you work for an employer who contributes to the plan for you. During your probationary membership, you will not be eligible to earn any pension benefits.

• you work for employers who together contribute $1,000 or more to the plan for you, or
• you satisfy the requirements of a part-time worker and your employer contributes to the plan for you.

You may also join the pension plan if you work for the union or the plan Administrator.

Benefits Plan

• a member in good standing with the union and belong to:
  • a participating local, or
  • a non-participating local that has signed a reciprocal agreement with us; or
• a probationary member (not yet initiated into the union).

You must first complete an Enrolment/Change Form and return it to the Administrator. Your coverage starts on the first day of the second month after you have a total of 200 bank hours in your hour-bank account (a total of 600 hours if you are a probationary member). See Bank hours for more information.

Example: If you work 100 hours in July and 100 hours in August, you will have 200 bank hours and your coverage will begin on October 1st.

If you are a member in good standing with a local that has signed a reciprocal agreement, you can either join our plan or stay in your own local’s plan. Please contact the Administrator for more information.

Very important changes to your emergency travel insurance.

We have had an update from the benefit plan’s insurance provider concerning your out-of-province/country emergency travel insurance as follows and effective May 1, 2020.

As of May 1, 2020, your travel insurance now excludes any sickness, injury, or medical condition you suffer or contract, or any loss you incur in a specific country, region or area for which the Government of Canada has issued a travel advisory or formal notice, before your departure date, advising travellers to avoid non-essential travel or to avoid all travel to that specific country, region or area. Note that prior to May 1, 2020, this exclusion did not exist in our policy.

If the travel advisory or formal notice is issued after your departure date, your coverage under this policy in that specific country, region or area will be limited to a period of 10 days from the date the travel advisory or formal notice was issued, or to a period that is reasonably necessary for you to safely evacuate the country, region or area.

This means that because there is a Government of Canada global travel advisory telling residents to avoid non-essential travel outside of Canada until further notice, you do not have coverage for travel outside of Canada.

We encourage you to visit https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories regularly for the most up-to-date travel information.