Canada's top 100 employers

What gets a company named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers?

For Canada Post, strong leadership and a willingness to listen to employees helped the corporation break into the top 100, for the first time this year.

For three-time honouree Seven Oaks General Hospital in Winnipeg, the services offered by the hospital's 80,000-square-foot Wellness Institute, which help turn injured and illness-prone employees into happier, healthier workers, has solidified its position as a Top 100 Employer.

Over the past seven years, the book's publisher, Mediacorp Canada Inc., has found that the top companies have been offering more and better benefits.

Generous vacation entitlements of three, four or even five weeks in the first year are the norm instead of the exception, as are generous pension plan contributions and maternity top-ups, with some companies offering top ups of as much as 95 per cent.

Other winners provide services that give employees peace of mind, such as on-site daycare or take-home dinners. Even the small but memorable extras such as free organic, fair-trade coffee or free turkeys at Christmas, can help a company make it on the list.

For more information on Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2007, including case studies on three winners, check out the Oct. 23 issue of Canadian HR Reporter.

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And the winners are…

•Abebooks Inc., Victoria

•Alcoa Aluminerie de Deschambault S.E.N.C.,
Deschambault-Grondines, Que.

•Algorithmics Incorporated, Toronto

•Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., Toronto

•AltaGas Ltd., Calgary

•Altana Pharma Inc., Oakville, Ont.

•Appleby College, Oakville, Ont.

•Assiniboine Credit Union Limited, Winnipeg

• The Association of Management, Administrative and
Professional Crown Employees of Ontario, Toronto

•Atlantic Lottery Corporation Inc., Moncton, N.B.

•Bank of Montreal, Toronto

•Bayer CropScience Inc., Calgary

•Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto

• Business Development Bank of Canada / BDC,
Montreal

•Canada Post Corporation, Ottawa

•Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Toronto

•Cementation Canada Inc., North Bay, Ont.

•Ceridian Canada Ltd., Winnipeg

•Christie Digital Systems Canada, Inc., Kitchener, Ont.

•Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa

•Conexus Credit Union, Regina

•Cronus Technologies Incorporated, Saskatoon

•Dalsa Corporation, Waterloo, Ont.

•Diagnostic Chemicals Limited, Charlottetown

•Dofasco Inc., Hamilton

•Durham Regional Police Services, Oshawa, Ont.

•Ecotrust Canada, Vancouver

•Effem Inc., Bolton, Ont.

•Enbridge Inc., Calgary

•Epcor Utilities Inc., Edmonton

•Ernst & Young LLP, Toronto

•Export Development Canada, Ottawa

•Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Toronto

•Farm Credit Canada, Regina

•Fidelity Investments Canada Limited, Toronto

•G.A.P. Adventures Inc., Toronto

•General Dynamics Canada, Ltd., Ottawa

•Golder Associates Ltd., Burnaby, B.C.

•Great Little Box Company Ltd., The, Richmond, B.C.

•The Halifax Herald Limited, Halifax

•Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton

•Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co., Mississauga, Ont.

•Hill & Knowlton Canada, Toronto

•HSBC Bank Canada, Vancouver

•I Love Rewards Inc., Toronto

•iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., Waterloo, Ont.

•IKEA Canada Limited Partnership, Burlington, Ont.

•Indigo Books & Music Inc., Toronto

•Jacques Whitford Limited, Dartmouth, N.S.

•Keane Canada, Inc., Halifax

•KPMG LLP, Toronto

•Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.

•Laurentide Controls Ltd., Kirkland, Que.

•Law Society of Upper Canada, The, Toronto

•L’Oréal Canada Inc., Montreal

•Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, Winnipeg

•MBNA Canada Bank, Ottawa

•MDA Corporation, Richmond, B.C.

•Medavie Blue Cross, Moncton, N.B.

•Microsoft Canada Co., Mississauga, Ont.

•Mintz & Partners LLP, Toronto

•New Flyer Industries Ltd., Winnipeg

•North Atlantic Refining Ltd., Come By Chance, Nfld.

•Oliver Bonacini Restaurants, Toronto

•Patient News Publishing Inc., Haliburton, Ont.

•PCL Constructors Inc., Edmonton

•Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals (Canada), Kirkland, Que.

•PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto

•Procter & Gamble Inc., Toronto

•Progressive Solutions Inc., Vernon, B.C.

•Research In Motion Limited / RIM, Waterloo, Ont.

•Rogers Insurance Ltd., Calgary

•Royal Canadian Mint, Ottawa

•Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa

•Russell Investments Canada Limited, Toronto

•SAS Institute (Canada) Inc., Toronto

•SaskTel, Regina

•Seven Oaks General Hospital, Winnipeg

•Shell Canada Limited, Calgary

•Sophos Inc., Vancouver

•Spruceland Millworks Inc., Acheson, Alta.

•Sun Life Financial, Waterloo, Ont.

•Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary

•Syngenta Crop Protection Canada, Inc., Guelph, Ont.

•Thomson Nelson, Toronto

•Toronto Hydro Corporation, Toronto

•Toronto International Film Festival Group, Toronto

•Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., Cambridge, Ont.

•University Health Network, Toronto

•University of Toronto, Toronto

•Urban Systems Ltd., Kamloops, B.C.

•Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, Vancouver

•City of Vancouver, Vancouver

•Veer Incorporated, Calgary

• Vivendi Universal Games, Inc., Radical Entertainment, Vancouver

•Wardrop Engineering Inc., Winnipeg

•WorleyParsons Komex, Calgary

•Yanke Group of Companies, Saskatoon

•Yellow Pages Group, Île des Soeurs, Que.

•The Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.