Health Canada employees participating in a diversity event
Chosen as one of National Capital Region'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 features a variety of onsite amenities including a fully-equipped fitness facility, employee lounge, quiet room for meditation or religious observance and an onsite cafeteria (with healthy and special diet menus)
invests in ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, financial bonuses for some course completion and a range of in-house and online training programs
supports employees who are new mothers with generous maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 93% of salary for 52 weeks) and parental top-up for new fathers and adoptive parents (to 93% of salary for 35 weeks)
also manages an onsite daycare facility which employees can take advantage of when they are ready to return to work
helps employees prepare for life after work with retirement planning assistance and contributions to a defined benefit pension plan
Background Information
Industry:Administration of Public Health Programs.
Established:1919.
Parent company:Ministry of Health.
Full-time employees in Canada:9,537.
Full-time at this location:6,470.
Part-time employees in Canada:517.
Longest serving employee:51 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:8,844.
Average age of all employees:42.
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