October 21, 2005

Employers Recognized for created great workplaces

The Winnipeg Free Press - Business Picture The Winnipeg Free Press - Business Picture
6 local firms among top employers in Canada Wed Oct 19 2005 By Murray McNeill
PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ACU's Al Morin and staff celebrate. New Flyer, Ceridian, Murray Automotive, Seven Oaks Hospital, Wardrop are also on list.


IT was third time lucky for Assiniboine Credit Union yesterday after it was one of six Manitoba companies named to Canada's Top 100 Employers list for 2006. "The last two years we made the short list and the top 200, but we hadn't been able to reach the top 100," ACU president and chief executive officer Al Morin said in an interview yesterday. "But this year we were successful." This is also the first year that Winnipeg bus manufacturer New Flyer Industries Ltd. has cracked the six-year-old Top 100 list, which is compiled annually by Mediacorp Canada Inc., a Toronto-based firm which is Canada's largest publisher of employment periodicals. The other four Manitoba companies on the 2006 list -- Ceridian Canada Ltd., The Murray Automotive Group, Seven Oaks General Hospital, and Wardrop Engineering Inc. -- are all making repeat appearances. The Top 100 Employers list recognizes Canadian companies that are leaders in their field in attracting and retaining high-quality employees. Applicants are rated on seven key areas: physical workplace; work and social atmosphere; health, financial and family benefits; vacation and time off; employee communications; performance management and training and skills development. The selection panel also looks for interesting and novel things that employers are doing.
Mediacorp president Anthony Meehan said Manitoba should be proud to have six companies included in the Top 100.



"It's the same number as Quebec, which is incredible," Meehan said in an interview. "Manitoba has some great employers that are doing things well there."
Posted by BR at October 21, 2005 09:06 AM