Chosen as one of National Capital Region's Top Employers for 2012:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
unique head office that features a variety of onsite amenities including a fully-equipped fitness facility, employee lounge, quiet room for meditation and religious observance and onsite cafeteria (with healthy and special diet menus)
encourages ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, a range of in-house and online training initiatives, formal mentoring program and career planning services
supports employees who are new mothers with generous maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 93% of salary for 52 weeks) and parental top-up for new fathers and adoptive parents (to 93% of salary or 35 weeks)
helps employees balance work and their personal life with alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, telecommuting, formal earned days-off program and shortened and compressed work week options
encourages employees to save for the future with contributions to a defined benefit pension plan
Background Information
Industry:Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities.
Established:1997.
Full-time employees in Canada:7,036.
Part-time employees in Canada:357.
Longest serving employee:46.9 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:23,050.
Average age of all employees:43.2.
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