Schneider Electric Victoria employees playing volleyball
Chosen as one of BC'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 ongoing professional development with tuition subsidies for job-related courses, in-house and online training initiatives, subsidies for professional accreditation, and an online skills inventory
offers new employee referral bonuses (to $5,000) for some positions, a share purchase plan option, and a defined contribution pension plan
helps employees balance their professional and personal lives through a variety of alternative work arrangements, including telecommuting, flexible hours, compressed work week, and a shortened work week option (fewer hours with less pay)
supports employees with older children through a post-secondary academic scholarship program (to $3,000 each)
offers new employees three weeks of paid vacation to start, working to a maximum of six weeks paid vacation, and just happens to be located on beautiful Vancouver Island
Background Information
Industry:Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing.
:Publicly traded.
Stock symbol:SU,PA (Euronext Paris).
Established:1983.
Parent company:Schneider Electric.
Full-time employees in Canada:337.
Full-time worldwide:118,819.
Part-time employees in Canada:2.
Longest serving employee:23 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:662.
Average age of all employees:38.
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