Chosen as one of Atlantic Canada's Top Employers and Nova Scotia's Top Employers for 2012:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
in addition to personal paid days-off, starts new employees at three weeks of paid vacation allowance
invests in ongoing employee development with generous tuition subsidies for job-related courses (to $5,000), financial bonuses for some course completion and in-house and online training programs
supports employees who are new mothers with maternity leave top-up payments (to 93% of salary for 15 weeks) as well as extended health benefit coverage during their leave
also pays parental leave top-up to employees who are new fathers or adoptive parents (to 93% of salary for 10 weeks)
helps employees save for life after work with generous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan and offers retirement planning assistance and phased-in work options to help employees transition out of the workforce
Background Information
Industry:General Medical and Surgical Hospitals.
Established:2001.
Full-time employees in Canada:2,284.
Part-time employees in Canada:1,569.
Longest serving employee:45 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:1,850.
Average age of all employees:46.
