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:
helps older workers prepare for life after work with retirement planning assistance, a transitional work program that allows employees to gradually reduce work hours and generous contributions to a defined benefit pension plan
new employees start at three weeks of paid vacation allowance and receive additional paid time-off during the holiday season
encourages ongoing employee development with subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, formal mentoring and a range of in-house training programs
offers maternity and parental leave top-up payments for new mothers (to 95% of salary for 23 weeks) and operates a subsidized onsite daycare facility that employees may take advantage of when they're ready to return to work
Background Information
Industry:Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools.
Established:1848.
Full-time employees in Canada:2,900.
Part-time employees in Canada:5,400.
Longest serving employee:44 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:17,000.
Average age of all employees:38.
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