Chosen as one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers for 2012:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
supports employees who are new mothers with maternity leave top-up payments (to 100% of salary for 17 weeks) and provides parental leave top-up to new fathers and adoptive parents (to 100% of salary for 4 weeks)
helps employees balance their work and personal life with a variety of flexible work arrangements including flexible hours, telecommuting, reduced summer hours and shortened and compressed work week options
encourages ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, in-house and online training and a formal mentoring program
also manages a generous national scholarship program for first year law students at law schools across the country and hosts a national training week for new lawyers in their first year of practice
helps employees prepare for life after work with retirement planning assistance, phased-in work arrangements, contributions to a defined contribution pension plan and health benefit coverage that extends into retirement
Background Information
Industry:Offices of Lawyers.
Established:1856.
Full-time employees in Canada:1,031.
Full-time at this location:591.
Full-time worldwide:1,053.
Part-time employees in Canada:69.
Longest serving employee:40 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:3,564.
Average age of all employees:40.54.
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