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:
unique head office that features a variety of onsite amenities including a fully-equipped fitness facility with free membership, employee lounge and video games, quiet room for meditation and religious observance and nap room for employees who need a quick rest during the day
encourages ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, in-house and online training and a formal mentoring program
supports new mothers and fathers (including adoptive parents) with maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 100% of salary for 15 weeks)
offers compassionate leave top-up payments to employees who are called upon to care for a loved one (to 100% of salary for 13 weeks)
provides great financial rewards including signing bonuses for some employees, year-end performance bonuses and a global "Share Value" plan through which shares are provided to employees at certain grade levels
Background Information
Industry:Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing.
Established:2000.
Parent company:GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
Full-time employees in Canada:1,261.
Full-time at this location:698.
Part-time employees in Canada:7.
Longest serving employee:36 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:10,610.
Average age of all employees:42.7.
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