Employee of the City of Medicine Hat planting flowers
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 ongoing skills development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, in-house and online training programs and in-house apprenticeship opportunities
supports employees who are new mothers with maternity leave top-up payments (to 95% of salary for 15 weeks) and extended health benefits coverage during their leave
helps employees balance work and their personal life with a variety of alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, formal earned days-off program and shortened and compressed work week options
provides compassionate leave top-up payments to employees who are called upon to care for a loved one (to 100% of salary for 1 week)
Background Information
Industry:Legislative Bodies.
Established:1906.
Full-time employees in Canada:976.
Part-time employees in Canada:305.
Longest serving employee:44 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:4,095.
Average age of all employees:43.9.
