Syncrude Canada employee volunteering
Chosen as one of Alberta's Top Employers for 2013:
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
- encourages older employees to prepare for life after work with retirement planning assistance, phased-in work options and contributions to a defined benefit or defined contribution pension plan (depending on employee group)
- invests in continued skills development with in-house apprenticeship opportunities, formal mentoring, leadership training and tuition subsidies for job-related courses
- also encourages children of employees to pursue post-secondary education with an academic scholarship program (to $2,400 per child)
- new employees receive three weeks of paid vacation allowance to start as well as additional personal paid days-off which can be scheduled throughout the year
- offers compassionate leave top-up payments to employees who are called upon to care for a loved one (to 100% of salary for 1 week)
Background Information
Industry:
Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction.
Major Canadian hiring locations:
Fort McMurray AB, Edmonton AB, Calgary AB.
Established:
1964.
Full-time employees in Canada:
5,617.
Part-time employees in Canada:
141.
Longest serving employee:
38.9 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:
25,452.
Average age of all employees:
41.6.
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