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The United Church of Canada offers employees a core suite of group health and dental benefits and life insurance (paid for by employers), restorative care (short-term disability) and employer indemnity plans (paid for by employers), long-term disability insurance (paid for by employees) and a retiree group health and dental plan (paid for by retired members who select the plan upon retirement).
In September 2020, the General Council Executive approved annual increases of 13.7% to the premiums paid by pensioners who are enrolled in the pensioner plan to move the plans to become self-funding by 2025. This has been accomplished.
The Executive of the 44th General Council in response to GS127 Future of Fundraising in the Church, March 2025, directed the General Secretary to: “ begin negotiations and sign an agreement with the Board of The United Church of Canada Foundation to undertake the responsibility for fundraising for Mission and Service including special appeals for emergencies, etc."
The Budget Principles and Assumptions provide the essential foundation for preparing the operating budget of the General Council Office of the United Church of Canada. Once approved by the Executive of the General Council, this document establishes the strategic budgetary direction enabling staff to develop a comprehensive operating budget, which details key elements such as staffing levels, grant allocations, spending parameters, and authorized transfers from various reserves.
Currently, the United Church of Canada has a Post-Pregnancy Leave Policy and a Parental Leave Policy for ministry personnel found in the Pastoral Relations: Supporting the Pastoral Relationship Handbook.
Authority of the Executive of the General Council That the authority of the Executive of the General Council is as set out in The Manual.
GC45 GS10 Omnibus: Implementation for Summer 2025
GS11 Omnibus: Take No Further Action
That the authority of the Executive of the General Council is as set out in The Manual.
The United Church of Canada, as an operator of residential institutions, is being asked to issue an updated apology for its role and the actions of its employees in that system. Calls for an updated apology have come from a survivor/United Church settler group in Port Alberni; Pacific Mountain Regional Council (PM02); and in the Final Report of the Special Interlocutor for Missing and Disappeared Children and Unmarked Burials.
