Ernst and Young employees at a Chinese New Year event
Chosen as one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers for 2013:
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 100% of salary for 17 weeks) and parental leave top-up payments for new fathers or adoptive parents (to 100% of salary for 2 weeks)
- also provides adoptive parents with a generous subsidy to help cover the costs of adoption (to $10,000)
- a forward-looking employer that maintains an Environmental Sustainability Advisory Panel to help reduce the firm's environmental footprint though numerous in-house initiatives, including the elimination of bottled water for meetings, support for carpooling, and reductions in non-essential business travel through use of teleconferencing and flexible work options
- encourages the continued education of employees through subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, formal mentoring, financial bonuses for some course completion and leadership training
- helps employees balance work and their personal life with a variety of alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, telecommuting, reduced summer hours and shortened and compressed work week options
- has a Chief Inclusiveness Officer as well as a Leader of Inclusiveness who oversee the firm's many diversity initiatives, from leadership development programs for women, visible minorities and LGBT individuals to an in-house accessibility committee that champions awareness of workplace issues affecting persons living with disabilities
Background Information
Industry:
Offices of Certified Public Accountants.
Major Canadian hiring locations:
Toronto ON, Vancouver BC, Edmonton AB, Calgary AB, Winnipeg MB, London ON, Kitchener ON, Thornhill ON, Ottawa ON, Montréal QC, Québec QC, Halifax NS, Dieppe NB, Saint John NB.
Established:
1864.
Parent company:
Ernst & Young Global Limited Partnership.
Full-time employees in Canada:
4,427.
Full-time at this location:
2,068.
Full-time worldwide:
152,000.
Part-time employees in Canada:
142.
Longest serving employee:
40 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:
29,186.
Average age of all employees:
34.
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