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Vancouver, Whistler, Surrey named top employers

February 2nd, 2011 · 9 Comments

I’ve been getting news releases from some organizations that were just named to the top-employer list, so thought I’d add another twig to the smouldering employee-relations debate here by posting this.

Also paid for by your tax dollars on the list: Coast Mountain Bus.

You can go to the link here, click on the organization of your choice, and see which workplace policies contributed to their selection.

Categories: City Hall Talk

9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Been There // Feb 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Intersting

    However, if you read the ntoice you will find that you nominate yourself.

    Gee I wonder what minion was disposed to that?

    Call me skeptical

  • 2 Bill Lee // Feb 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    Oh them. The Grope and Flail does the National Best Employers.
    It is a self-promotion scam. The company sent out 23,000 invites and got 700 back, and then chose 100. See back issue of wherever they hid this embarrassment in old issues of the ROB magazine or a small supplement in the main paper.
    It was hoped that they would buy adverts in the newspaper. Not happening.
    Companies have found out how to game the system and do. Give a clerk a day or two and the automated HR system will pull out numbers.
    Try any of the entries and a token daycare allotment puts many up, and the accumulated vacation entitlement of a veteran workforce sounds nice.

    And few go to the Best Practice Conference this company also sponsors after.

  • 3 The Fourth Horseman // Feb 2, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    Whistler?

    They have a pretty brutal way of getting rid of employees, from what I hear.

  • 4 Bill McCreery // Feb 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    Horsey, please see 2 above.

  • 5 The Fourth Horseman // Feb 2, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    Trying to be topical, Bill, in a very, very dark way.

    I have failed, utterly.

  • 6 sv // Feb 3, 2011 at 8:00 am

    A comprehension failure then 4thhorse and not yours at that.

  • 7 Paul // Feb 3, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Ohhhhhhh Horsey. Too soon. Too soon.

  • 8 The Fourth Horseman // Feb 4, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    I thought of that Paul. For about a minute.

    But since Whistler is responding to a marketing promo, and since the dogs “worked” during the Olympics at Whistler, and since the Olympics were supposed to be a legacy to the province, and since the Premier and some of his friends from the business community–including some at Whistler and Outback Adventures—were so hot on telling us that all was rosy, well, it’s really not too soon, is it?

    At any rate, it’s too late for the dogs.

  • 9 The Fourth Horseman // Feb 5, 2011 at 12:12 am

    A video is worth a thousand words.

    From Bob Mackin, 24HRS via tweet:

    Awkward Silence goes to @MayorGregor and @Stockwell_Day. http://bit.ly/fantZZ