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:
encourages employees to save for retirement with generous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan (to 7% of salary)
invests in ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, in-house and online training programs and an online employee skills inventory
supports employees who are new mothers, fathers or adoptive parents with maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 100% of salary for 17 weeks)
also offers adoptive parents a generous subsidy to help cover the costs of adoption
in addition to paid time off during the holiday season, new employees start at three weeks of paid vacation allowance
Background Information
Industry:Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing.
:Publicly traded.
Stock symbol:MRK.DAX.
Established:1990.
Parent company:Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA.
Full-time employees in Canada:148.
Full-time at this location:72.
Full-time worldwide:14,000.
Part-time employees in Canada:15.
Longest serving employee:21 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:1,464.
Average age of all employees:42.
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