Chosen as one of Alberta's Top Employers for 2012:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
encourages employees to adopt an active lifestyle with employee sports teams, subsidized membership to a fully-equipped onsite fitness facility with instructor-led classes and an employee fitness committee to ensure programs exist to suit the diverse needs of employees
provides maternity leave top-up payments to employees who are new mothers (to 95% of salary for 8 weeks) and offers extended health benefit coverage during their leave
helps employees balance work and their personal life with a variety of alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, telecommuting and shortened and compressed work week options
offers great financial rewards including signing bonuses for some employees, referral bonuses for employees who refer a candidate that is successfully hired by the company and year-end bonuses available to all employees
invests in ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, in-house and online training options and a formal mentoring program
Background Information
Industry:Credit Unions.
Established:1938.
Full-time employees in Canada:4,461.
Full-time at this location:1,259.
Part-time employees in Canada:621.
Longest serving employee:43 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:35,669.
Average age of all employees:39.
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