Employees cooking at the City of Saskatoon's annual pancake breakfast event
Chosen as one of Saskatchewan'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 95% of salary for 15 weeks) and extended health benefit coverage during their leave
encourages employees to balance work and their personal life with a variety of alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, a formal earned days-off program and shortened and compressed work week options
offers compassionate leave top-up payments to employees who are called upon to care for a loved one (to 100% of salary for 4 days)
invests in ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, a range of in-house and online training options and apprenticeship opportunities
Background Information
Industry:Legislative Bodies.
Established:1906.
Full-time employees in Canada:3,308.
Part-time employees in Canada:260.
Longest serving employee:46 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:23,250.
Average age of all employees:44.