Toronto Community Housing wins Canada's Top 100 Employer Award for 2010
October 9, 2009
On October 8, 2009, Toronto Community Housing was publicly recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2010. Maclean's magazine This is the second year in a row that we have been recognized for our commitment to a safe and healthy workplace.
This award reaffirms that we continue to be on the right track to attract and retain the quality people we need to help continue building great neighbourhoods. But our work is not done. Through the tireless efforts of the Healthy Workplace and the Joint Health and Safety teams, we continue to improve the health and well-being of our staff each and every day.
More than 1,500 employers were considered and evaluated using the following criteria:
- Physical Workplace
- Work Atmosphere & Social
- Health, Financial & Family Benefits
- Vacation & Time Off
- Employee Communications
- Performance and Management
- Training & Skills Development
- Community Involvement
Here are some of the benefits that were part of the reason why Toronto Community Housing was selected at a Top 100 Employer for 2010:
- provides excellent parental
leave top-up benefits to adoptive and new mothers (to 93% of salary for 52
weeks) as well as new fathers (to 93% of salary for 37 weeks) - offers employees generous
compassionate care leave top-up benefits (to 93% of salary for 8 weeks) - recently introduced a new
healthy workplace plan, whose initiatives include an employee walking club, free
health clinics, and lunch and learn sessions on a variety of wellness topics - starts new employees at
three weeks vacation - offers a variety of in-house
training initiatives and supports continuing education through tuition subsidies
(to $1,000) for courses at outside institutions
We will not rest on our laurels and will continue to strive to build safe and healthy communities for our tenants, staff and community partners. For more information please visit eluta.ca.