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:
provides compassionate leave top-up payments to employees who are called upon to care for loved one (to 100% of salary for 1 week)
salaried employees receive generous maternity and parental leave top-up payments, available to new mothers (to 75% of salary for 52 weeks) and adoptive mothers (to 75% of salary for 35 weeks)
encourages ongoing employee development with generous tuition subsidies for job-related courses (to $5,000), in-house and online training programs and subsidies for professional accreditation
also manages an academic scholarship program for children of employees who attend post-secondary institutions (to $2,500 per child)
employees can share in the company's success with profit sharing and a share purchase plan that is available to all employees
Background Information
Industry:Hardware Stores.
:Publicly traded.
Stock symbol:HD.
Established:1994.
Parent company:The Home Depot Inc..
Full-time employees in Canada:13,079.
Full-time at this location:776.
Full-time worldwide:179,447.
Part-time employees in Canada:14,108.
Longest serving employee:12.3 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:6,460.
Average age of all employees:41.
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