Some of the reasons why Goldcorp was selected as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2011:
this company invests in employees' ongoing development with tuition subsidies for job-related courses and subsidies for professional accreditation. based on the employees position, some people receive top payments from eighty percent of their salery in twenty weeks for new parents. this company even provides its employee with a three week paid vacation to start; in addition to a paid holladay shutdown. they even offer a fivehundred doller healthcare spending plan
employer backgrownd
Goldcorp Inc. is one of the world's largest gold mining companies, with operations in Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala and the United States. In addition to mining, the publicly-traded company is also active in exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation activities.
goldcrop was Established 2004. the major Canadian hiring locations are Vancouver BC, Toronto ON, Timmins ON, Thunder Bay ON, Red Lake ON. the revenues are twothousond fourhundred million. goldcrop has full time employees in canada and volentary work .goldcrops longest serving employee has been in the company for fortyone years. they recived eighthundred applications in vancouver last year. fourtyone persent of employees are female, twenty eight percent of managers are female and directors consis of ten percent of females the adverage age of all employees are fourty one years old
physical work place
Goldcorp's physical workplace is rated as above-average. Goldcorp's head office occupies the top two floors of the 35-storey Park Place office tower. Within easy walking distance of a Skytrain station and Stanley Park, the head office features an onsite fitness facility; self-serve lunchroom with lunch deliveries, free fresh fruit, coffee and tea beverages.
work atmospher and communications
work atmospher and communications
Goldcorp's work atmosphere is rated as very good. On-the-job, employees can enjoy casual dress Fridays and are allowed to can listen to music while working. Throughout the year employees gather for a variety of fun social events like an annual Christmas party and luncheon, a family Christmas party hosted at the Vancouver Aquarium, golf tournament and dinner and the "Bard on the Beach" outdoor dinner theatre. Throughout the year, Goldcorp keeps employees up-to-date through a company newsletter; corporate intranet site.
Financial Benefits & Compensation
Goldcorp's financial benefits are rated as very good. Goldcrop has commpetitive salaries, to keep salaries competitive the company participates in outside salary surveys every twelve months. Individual salaries are reviewed every twelve months. Employees may also recieve signing bonuses for some employees. A year-end bonuses for all employees can be up to twenty eight thousond, in a share-purchase plan for all employees. matching RSP contributions up to nine percent of salary.gold crop provides life & disability insurance.
Health & Family-Friendly Benefits
Goldcorp's health and family benefits are rated as above-average. great west life manages the health and benifits plan. As part of the health plan, the employer pays one hundred percent of the premiums. Employees who work up to twenty hours per week receive coverage. befor the coverage plan begins there is no waiting period, the employees recive full family coverage on the health plan. The basic plan includes healthclub subsidy up to six hundred each year, routine dental, restorative dental, orthodontics, employees receve for hundered dollers for eyecare every two years, traditional medicine and alternative medicine coverage and even massage therapy, medical equipment and supplies, homecare, employee assistance plan, when employees are traviling the recive travel insurance. Employees also receive an annual five hundred doller healthcare spending account that carrys over into the nex year if un-used.For some Goldcorp's employees, gold crops family-friendly benefits include fertility treatments, maternity top-up payments up to eighty percent of their salaries for twenty weeks. parental leave top-up for new fathers and adoptive parents ,eighty percent of the employees sallary for twnty six weeks. mothers recive onehundred pecent for six weeks of their leave salary, for mothers working above twnty weeks recive eight percent above twenty weeks.
employment engagemant
Goldcorp's employee engagement program is rated as very good. Employees receive individual performance reviews every six months. Exit interview provided for departing or promoting employees.
BC HYDRO
why were they chosen
- provides maternity leave top-up payments to employees who are new mothers (to 85% of salary for 17 weeks)
employer background
- BC Hydro generates and distributes electricity to residents in British Columbia. The provincial Crown corporation is one of Canada's largest public utilities, operating 30 hydroelectric facilities which produce 80 percent of the province's electricity, two gas-fired thermal plants and one combustion fuel turbine station.
- The public utility is planning to build all new office facilities to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold standard. The Vancouver head office also features an onsite fitness facility with subsidized memberships; on-site massage therapy and physiotherapy services; personal trainer, employee lounge; religious observance room; onsite cafeteria with healthy menus and subsidized meals, secure bicycle parking; transit subsidies.
- Head office employees enjoy business casual dress; casual dress Fridays; can listen to music while working; employee sports teams. Social gatherings are organized by individual departments, and include holiday parties and other team recognition events
- To keep salaries competitive the company participates in outside salary surveys every 12 months. Individual salaries are reviewed every 12 months.
- All plans offer flexibility through varying levels of coverage, from no coverage to extended levels of coverage for employees and their families
why were they chosen
- invests in employees' ongoing development with generous tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions, subsidies for professional accreditation, and financial bonuses upon course completion
- With roots dating back to 1906 as the Alberta Government Telephones Commision, the company merged with British Columbia's provincial telephone service in 1999 to become the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country.
- Located in the heart of busy Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, Telus' head office is only minutes away from public transit options, restaurants, shopping areas, recreation centres, and educational institutions.
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