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Loblaw Companies Limited

  
Loblaw Companies Limited
Loblaw employee preparing pizza
Loblaw employee preparing pizza
Chosen as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers for 2012:
By Kristina Leung and Richard Yerema, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors  ( Feb 20, 2012)

Some of the reasons why Loblaw Companies Limited was selected as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers 2012:
  • manages an inclusion council comprised of employees from all business levels -- the council establishes goals and creates working committees to oversee the implementation and monitor the progress towards those goals
  • launched Women@Loblaw network, an online networking site that provides support for female employees through professional development workshops and informal mentoring
  • in the past year, launched a Women@Loblaw National Conference to bring female employees from different levels of the company together and provide an opportunity to network and share experiences
  • works with Ability Edge to identify candidates as well as with Social Capital Partners in the development of a pilot program to increase representation of employees with disabilities
  • partners with Equitek to post job vacancies and has job advertisements translated and inserted as part of product flyers in order to attract ethnic applicants
  • stores are active in their local community, participating in a variety of community events including the Aboriginal Human Resources Council's Inclusion Works event and career fair, recruitment events organized by G-Force in Toronto and Montréal, as well as the Rainbow Employment Network's job fair in Toronto
  • two stores in British Columbia participated in Access Abbotsford's "Measuring Up" program, which asks persons with disabilities to judge for themselves whether an employer meets accessibility requirements

 Background Information

Percentage of employees who are women: 54%. Of managers: 48%. Percentage of employees who are visible minorities: 15%. Of managers: 15%. Average age of all employees: 34. Full-time employees in Canada: 30,472. Full-time at this location: 2,887. Part-time employees in Canada: 62,138.
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©2012 Mediacorp Canada Inc. All rights reserved. Used by Eluta with permission. For comments or questions on this employer review, please contact Mediacorp's editorial team.



   

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