Vacation time / Leave – Employee Benefits. Here is a comprehensive compilation of the most creative employee Vacation time / Leave benefit ideas that enable innovative organizations deliver better value to their employees well beyond dental, health and pension options that most offer in their plans.

These ideas a relevant for all budgets and sizes of organizations and provide a simplified approach to Benefits planning to increase employee satisfaction.

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Employee Benefits Ideas – Vacation time / Leave

 

• Boston Consulting Group of Canada helps employees find balance between work and their personal lives with 3 weeks of starting vacation allowance, moving to 4 weeks after only 3 years on the job, and up to 12 paid personal days off which can be scheduled at employees’ discretion

 

• Boston Consulting Group of Canada supports employees who want to start a family with maternity and parental leave top-up payments (up to 100% of salary for up to 17 weeks for birth mothers and adoptive parents) and offers a generous subsidy of $15,000 to help cover the costs of adoption

 

• Blake, Cassels & Graydon supports employees who are new mothers with maternity leave top-up payments, ranging from 6 to 25 weeks, depending on their position, and recently launched a New Mothers Network at its Toronto office to provide female lawyers with a forum to discuss balancing their career and family demands

 

• Capital One helps employees balance work and their personal lives with 3 weeks of starting vacation allowance and up to 15 paid personal days off, which can be scheduled at employees’ discretion

 

• Capital One supports employees who are new mothers with maternity and parental leave top-up payments, to 100% of salary for the first 6 weeks, followed by 75% for 20 weeks

 

• Cadillac Fairview supports employees who are new mothers as well as adoptive parents with maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 70% of salary for up to 17 weeks)

 

• In addition to 3 weeks of starting vacation allowance, Cadillac Fairview provides 5 days of paid winter holiday shutdown as well as personal paid days off which can be scheduled at employees’ discretion

 

• CCAS of Toronto is a pioneer in providing more time off to employees in a challenging industry, offering 4 weeks of vacation to start and up to 10 paid personal days off, which can be used throughout the year

 

• BASF Canada offers maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers and fathers (including adoptive parents), to 100% of salary for up to 17 weeks — head office employees can also take advantage of a privately operated daycare located onsite

 

• AstraZeneca Canada supports employees who are new parents with maternity and parental leave top-up payments and offers the option to extend their paid leave into an unpaid leave of absence

 

• AMAPCEO provides exceptional maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new parents (including adoptive), ranging from 37 weeks to a full year of paid leave, and also offers up to 5 days of paid leave for grandparents following the birth or adoption of a grandchild

 

• In addition to receiving 4 weeks of paid vacation allowance to start, AMAPCEO offers paid personal days off which can be scheduled at the employees’ discretion

 

• Children’s Aid Society of Toronto truly does “walk-the-walk”, providing generous maternity and parental leave top-up payments for new mothers and fathers, including adoptive parents (up to 70% of salary for up to 34 weeks) and offers the option to extend their leave into an unpaid leave of absence.

 

• In addition to 4 weeks of starting vacation allowance, Cisco Systems Canada offers employees up to 5 paid personal days each year, which can be scheduled at employees’ discretion

 

• Coca-Cola Canada offers a number of family-friendly benefits including maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers or fathers (including adoptive parents), a subsidy to help cover the costs of adoption when needed (to $4,000 per child), and the option for employees to extend their leave into an unpaid leave of absence

 

• Diamond Schmitt Architects starts new employees with 3 weeks of paid vacation and offers all employees additional paid time off with summer holiday shutdown and closure between the Christmas and New Years holidays

 

• The College of Physicians and Surgeons supports employees who are new mothers, fathers or adoptive parents with maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 75% of salary for 28 weeks)

 

• Employees who are new to Corby Spirit & Wine / Hiram Walker & Sons receive 2 to 3 weeks of paid vacation allowance to start as well as paid time off during the summer months and winter holidays (up to 5 days each season)

 

• EllisDon provides maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers, fathers or adoptive parents (to 100% of salary for up to 8 weeks)

 

• Equitable Bank provides maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers or fathers (including adoptive parents), to 100% of salary for 6 to 8 weeks, depending on the employee

 

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