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Poll: 12-HOUR SHIFTS
Poll conducted: September 13, 2023
Total Participants: 48
What schedule does your company use for 12-hour shifts?
How long are the meal breaks for 12-hour shifts?
Are meal breaks paid as part of your 12-hour shift?
If meal and rest breaks are combined, they are taken as:
If rest breaks are separate, they are taken as:
Do you feel that 12-hour shifts reduce absenteeism?
Do you feel that 12-hour shifts decrease the overall alertness level of employees at the end of the day?
Do you find it difficult managing sick days with a 12-hour shifts?
Poll: PAY TRANSPARENCY IN JOB POSTINGS
Poll conducted: July 17, 2023
Total Participants: 102
Do you include wage or salary information in job postings?
Relating to pay transparency, what wage/salary information is used for job postings?
What is the compensation ratio used on the wage/salary information for job postings?
Poll: SERVICE RECOGNITION AWARDS
Poll conducted: June 15, 2023
Total Participants: 106
What type of award does your company offer for long service?
At what year of service do awards begin?
What is the cash value of your awards per year of service?
Poll: THE ROLE OF VACATION PAY IN CALCULATING OVERTIME
Poll conducted: May 29, 2023
Total Participants: 103
Does your company include vacation as hours worked for the purpose of calculating overtime?
Poll: CELL PHONE POLICIES
Poll conducted: May 18, 2023
Total Participants: 108
How does your company cell phone policy work?
What is your company’s policy on who receives a cell phone and/or allowance?
What criteria is used to decide eligibility?
Multiple responses allowed.
If your company provides a monthly cell phone allowance, what is the average amount spent per employee per month?
Poll: PAID DAYS OFF
Poll conducted: March 15, 2023
Total Participants: 67
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
How many public holidays do employees have off per year?
Does the company offer any additional paid days off beyond the public/statutory holidays above?
PAID PERSONAL DAYS
How many personal days/holidays are allotted to employees per year?
Personal days can be taken as:
Is carry-over of unused personal days allowed?
PAID FLOAT DAYS
How many floater days are allotted to employees per year?
Who decides when the float day(s) is used?
If company assigned, when is your float day(s) typically assigned?
Multiple responses allowed.
Is the entitlement of days off the same for both salaried and hourly-paid employees?
Poll: DISBURSING BONUS PAY
Poll conducted: February 22, 2023
Total Participants: 104
Does your company provide a performance bonus to any employees?
If yes, how frequently is it paid out?
Is the disbursement frequency different for your sales representatives as opposed to non-sales employees?
If yes, what is the frequency for sales representatives?
If you pay your sales representatives more than once a year, do you?
Are bonuses for sales representatives based on a calculated plan?
Poll: PAY TRANSPARENCY FOR SALARIED EMPLOYEES
Poll conducted: December 21, 2022
Total Participants: 100
Does your organization share salaries or salary ranges for positions within the company with their employees?
If not, is this information shared with leaders?
If not, are you planning to move toward or implement a pay transparency policy in the next 12 months?
Does your organization post the salary or salary range for an open job while advertising?
If not, are you considering changing this policy in the next 12 months?
Poll: CANADA DAY 2023
Poll conducted: December 14, 2022
Total Participants: 76
The upcoming Canada Day falls on Saturday, July 1, 2023. What day will you be offering off to your employees?
Poll: VACATION ENTITLEMENT DURING MATERNITY/PATERNITY/PARENTAL LEAVE
Poll conducted: November 24, 2022
Total Participants: 61
Does your organization allow employees on maternity, paternity or parental leave to continue to accrue vacation time while they are off on leave?
If yes, do they receive vacation time accrued along with vacation pay upon return from this leave?
Are salaried and hourly employees treated the same with regard to this policy?
Poll: MATERNITY/PATERNITY/PARENTAL TOP-UP BENEFITS
Poll conducted: September 22, 2022
Total Participants: 63
TOP-UP ON MATERNITY LEAVE
Does your company provide a top-up benefit for maternity leave?
Indicate the amount as a percentage of total pay?
What is the maximum length of time the benefit is offered?
Is there an eligibility criteria linked to length of service?
TOP-UP ON PATERNITY LEAVE
Does your company provide a top-up benefit for paternity (father/non birth parent) leave?
Indicate the amount as a percentage of total pay?
What is the maximum length of time the benefit is offered?
Is there an eligibility criteria linked to length of service?
TOP-UP ON PARENTAL LEAVE
Does your company provide a top-up benefit for parental (mother/father/adoptive parent) leave?
Indicate the amount as a percentage of total pay?
What is the maximum length of time the benefit is offered?
Is there an eligibility criteria linked to length of service?
Poll: HOURS OF WORK
Poll conducted: September 9, 2022
Total Participants: 75
How many days in the regular work week?
How many hours in the regular work week including all meal and rest periods?
How many hours in the regular work day including all meal and rest periods?
What is the length and type of meal breaks offered per day?
What is the length and type of rest breaks offered per day?
Poll: EDUCATION ASSISTANCE
Poll conducted: September 9, 2022
Total Participants: 66
Does your company offer educational assistance/tuition reimbursement for a bachelor’s or master’s degree?
What is your “typical” approach to educational assistance/tuition reimbursement for a bachelor’s or master’s degree?
Is there any exception for high potential and higher level employees beyond the standards that would be outlined above?
Poll: EMPLOYEE GROUPS AND COMMITTEES
Poll conducted: September 9, 2022
Total Participants: 66
Does your company provide developmental opportunities in the form of participation in voluntary committees/employee groups, e.g. charity committees, activity/social committees?
If yes, do these development opportunities provide exposure to business leadership?
If yes, what kind of recognition or reward is provided to employees who participate in these committees/groups?
Do your committees or employee groups have their own defined budget?
Poll: INFLATION ASSISTANCE
Poll conducted: July 21, 2022
Total Participants: 72
Have you provided a cost of living adjustment to wages/salaries in response to the current high rate of inflation?
The average increase based on responses was 3.4%.
Are there any other benefits you are offering to assist with the rise in inflation?
Poll: ATTENDANCE AWARDS
Poll conducted: July 21, 2022
Total Participants: 73
Does your company have an attendance program to reward employees with excellent or perfect attendance?
If yes, what type of awards do you offer?
Poll: SALARY/JOB PROGRESSIONS
Poll conducted: June 24, 2022
Total Participants: 76
How long does it take for a new employee to advance to the top job rate for the position they are hired for?
At what intervals do employees receive pay increases?
Poll: GAS ALLOWANCES FOR COMMUTERS
Poll conducted: June 23, 2022
Total Participants: 77
This poll is aimed at regular travel to and from work NOT business-related travel.
Is your company providing help in any form to their employees to offset current gas prices?
In what form is assistance provided?
The average amount reported was $95.00/month
Who qualifies to receive a gas benefit?
Is this benefit temporary or will the company continue it indefinitely?
Poll: MILEAGE ALLOWANCES
Poll conducted: March 16, 2022
Total Participants: 78
Has your company adjusted mileage allowances in response to the surging gas prices in recent months?
If yes, approximately how much did your company increase the rate?
How does your company pay out mileage?
If you pay by kilometre, what is the current rate?
If you pay a monthly allowance, what is the current average for employees that typically travel, e.g., sales representatives and similar positions?
Poll: VACATION PAY
Poll conducted: February 17, 2022
Total Participants: 69
How does your company allocate vacation pay to employees?
If your company experienced shut downs during the pandemic, did employees that could not work remotely use vacation pay to cover it?
Poll: Absenteeism & Turnover
Poll conducted: February 10, 2022
Total Participants: 66
Absenteeism
What was your company absenteeism rate in 2021?
How does your company define absenteeism, i.e., what types of absences are included?
Multiple responses allowed.
Turnover
Based on the past 12 months, the company turnover rate has?
What were the reasons most often given for resignations?
Multiple responses allowed.
Poll: New Ways of Working Post Pandemic
Poll conducted: January 27, 2022
Total Participants: 81
How many days per month are you planning to mandate eligible employees to work from the office?
What are your primary areas of focus as employees plan to return to office?
Multiple responses allowed.
Are you offering, or do you plan to offer any additional benefits to employees to encourage a return to office?
If yes, please indicate the benefits you’re offering.
Multiple responses allowed.
Have you taken, or do you plan to take any action to build engagement among employees required to be on site during COVID restrictions?
If yes, please indicate the actions you will be taking.
Multiple responses allowed.
Have you faced increased turnover due to your return-to-work policy?
Have you seen a positive increase in talent acquisition as a result of advertising flexible work arrangements in job postings?
Poll: CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 2021
Poll conducted: November 30, 2021
Total Participants: 98
This year, Christmas and Boxing Day fall on the weekend. What days off will you be offering as alternatives?
New Year’s Day also falls on a weekend this year. What day will you be offering off as an alternative?
Poll: AUTOMOBILE ALLOWANCES AND MILEAGE
Poll conducted: November 30, 2021
Total Participants: 94
Do you provide any employees with a car allowance?
Do you pay gas or mileage on top of the automobile allowance?
If yes, how is it disbursed?
Poll: ATTRITION AMONG FRONTLINE WORKERS
Poll conducted: October 6, 2021
Total Participants: 67
Have you seen an increase in attrition in the last few months for frontline roles, e.g., warehouse technicians, custodians, general labourers, truck and delivery drivers, etc.?
Are you finding compensation is the main reason for not being able to attract and retain talent?
Have you had to increase your starting rates in order to attract talent?
Besides increased pay, what are some of the other measures you have taken to better attract and retain frontline roles?
Multiple responses allowed.
Poll: RECRUITMENT DURING COVID-19
Poll conducted: September 1, 2021
Total Participants: 88
Industries of Participants:
Are you experiencing recruitment challenges due to COVID -19?
What do you attribute the difficulty to?
Multiple answers allowed.
Have you had to re-evaluate your pay scale during the pandemic to attract talent?
If yes, please indicate changes to your scale:
What are you doing differently to attract candidates?
Multiple answers allowed.
How long is it typically taking to fill open roles during the pandemic?
Poll: ATTENDANCE PROGRAMS
Poll conducted: August 12, 2021
Total Participants: 76
Does your company have a perfect attendance program?
If yes, what type of awards do you offer?
Multiple responses allowed.
Which employees does the program apply to?
Poll: RETURN TO WORK PLANS
Poll conducted: July 28, 2021
Total Participants: 98
Are you offering remote working days for your office employees?
How many remote days per week is the company offering?
Who selects the remote days?
When does your company/organization plan on returning to the office?
Poll: OVERTIME CALCULATIONS
Poll conducted: July 28, 2021
Total Participants: 70
What hours are included in your company’s weekly overtime calculation?
Multiple responses allowed.
Poll: STAND-BY PAY
Poll conducted: June 30, 2021
Total Participants: 35
Standby pay refers to additional compensation to employees that make themselves available during off-duty hours.
Provide the average HOURLY RATE for stand-by pay. (Participants who paid daily rates were instructed to convert them to hourly rates.)
Is stand-by pay paid as an hourly rate or as a flat daily rate?
Is there a minimum guaranteed number of hours?
Poll: EMPLOYEE VACCINATIONS & TESTING
Poll conducted: MAY 6, 2021
Total Participants: 82
Do you pay employees for time off to be COVID tested and/or wait for the results of a COVID test?
Do you pay for time off to be vaccinated?
Do you offer any type of incentive to encourage employees to get vaccinated?
Note: Respondents offering monetary incentives ranged from $5-$100. Time incentives ranged from 2 hours to 1 full day paid.
Do you offer, or are you planning to offer, on-site vaccination clinics?
Poll: SAFETY MONITOR
Poll conducted: JANUARY 27, 2021
Total Participants: 41
This is not a full-time stand-alone position. It is an additional responsibility taken on by an employee occupying another position in the company. The employee would elect to have this responsibility added to their already existing role as a result of the company wanting or needing an employee safety representative. Employees may take turns filling the role. It is a general role with duties that would vary by organization.
Does your company have a Safety Monitor?
If yes, do you pay additional compensation to the Safety Monitor?
Does the employee fill the role for a certain period of time or term, or is the role occupied on an indefinite basis?
Poll: PREMIUMS DURING LOCKDOWNS
Poll conducted: JANUARY 5, 2021
Total Participants: 86
Did you provide your workers with COVID-related premium pay during the lockdown last spring or any time after?
If you provided COVID-related premium pay, did you stop paying that premium at some point?
Are you or do you have plans to provide COVID-related premium pay during the current lockdown?
If yes, what is the amount per hour?
Poll: ABSENTEEISM
Poll conducted: September 22, 2020
Total Participants: 78
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
What is your company’s target absenteeism KPI (%)?
How does your company define absenteeism, i.e., what types of absences are included?
Multiple responses allowed.
Poll: SERVICE ANNIVERSARIES
Poll conducted: June 12, 2020
Total Participants: 92
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
What service milestones are celebrated in your company?
Multiple responses allowed.
Are employees celebrated interdepartmentally or company-wide?
Who pays for the awards given to employees?
If an employee is uncomfortable with public recognition, will the company agree to NOT recognize them at their request?
If yes, does the company still award them privately?
Are service awards ever announced outside the company?
If yes, can an employee choose to opt out of an announcement outside the company?
Poll: ANNUAL INCREASES DURING COVID-19
As employers continue to navigate the repercussions of COVID-19, we are checking in to see how the pandemic has impacted plans for annual increases.
Poll conducted: June 2, 2020
Total Participants: 102
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
ANNUAL INCREASES FOR UPCOMING NEGOTIATIONS/COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
41 Participants
What percentage increase does your company plan to use in negotiations of new collective agreements this year?
The average increase in the other category was 1.99%.
WAGE INCREASES
90 Participants
What is your projected annual increase for hourly-paid non-unionized employees this year?
SALARY INCREASES
96 Participants
What is your projected annual increase for salaried employees this year?
Poll: EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEMS
Polls conducted: May 7, 2020
Total Participants: 81
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company have an alert system in place whereby employees can be reached as a group in the event of an emergency? For example, if an employee became ill and a temporary closure was needed for sanitation purposes.
If yes, your system is:
Poll: CANADIAN EMERGENCY WAGE SUBSIDY (CEWS)
Polls conducted: May 7, 2020
Total Participants: 81
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Will your company be applying for the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS)?
Has your company had to lay-off any employees as a result of COVID-19?
If yes, will CEWS allow you to bring back some or all of those employees?
Has your company applied other strategies to keep employees in their jobs, e.g., shortened work weeks, reduced salaries, etc.?
Will you reverse/revise these strategies with the wage subsidy grant?
Poll: WORK FROM HOME REIMBURSEMENTS DURING COVID-19
Polls conducted: April 29, 2020
Total Participants: 99
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Do you have employees working from home as a result of COVID-19?
Are they being reimbursed for expenses incurred as a result of working from home?
Which expenses is the company reimbursing for? (Multiple responses allowed)
Is the reimbursement provided through an expense report for actual expense items, or is a flat monthly allowance provided to cover all related expenses?
If monthly allowance, what is the average range of the allowance?
Poll: EMPLOYEE REFERRAL REWARD PROGRAMS
Polls conducted: April 9, 2020
Total Participants: 71
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company have an employee referral program, whereby employees receive an award for recommending qualified friends, relatives or colleagues for a position within the organization?
How long must the new employee be working before the reward is given?
Is the reward for the referrer only or is it split between the referrer and referee?
How much is the reward?
Do you have one flat reward no matter the position, or do you have different reward levels depending on the position being filled?
Different reward levels provided were:
$500; $1000; $1500 depending on job
$500 – $3000 depending on job
$1000, $1500, $2000 depending on job
Hourly $250 Skilled Trades, Salary $500
$100 & $500 depending on job
Salaried employees $2000; Hourly employees $300
$1000 for all positions except $2000 for robotics and controls
$500 for support role, $1000 for professional and manager, $1500 for specific roles
Non-management Positions $1000, Territory Manager Positions $1500, Management Positions $2000
$200 at hiring, $300 at six months employment/probationary period, $500 at successful completion of one year
Poll: EMPLOYER RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Polls conducted: March 16-18, 2020
Total Participants: 104
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
If an HOURLY-PAID employee is self-isolating, how will the company respond to their absence?
If a SALARIED employee is self-isolating, how will the company respond to their absence?
With regard to school closures, what actions are you taking to help employees to address this?
Is your company planning to pay a hazardous work premium [danger pay/risk pay] for front line workers for business continuity purposes while the pandemic is going on?
Which of the following adjustments are you making for employees that are required to come to work as opposed to those who are able to work from home, or are out due to quarantine or self-exclusion?
If you have locations outside Canada and are implementing adjustments (as above), are you differentiating what you are doing in Canada as opposed to U.S. or international sites?
What additional safety precautions have you implemented in response to the pandemic?
Poll: HEALTH SERVICES TEAMS
Poll conducted: February 26, 2020
Total Participants: 88
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Where does your WSIB team report to?
Poll: RECRUITMENT COSTS
Poll conducted: October 24, 2019
Total Participants: 108
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
What was your company vacancy rate for the past 12 months?
The average rate above 5% was 6.8%
How many vacancies did you advertise externally in the past 12 months?
What was the average recruitment cost per vacancy?
What site do you use to advertise?
Poll: VACATION ENTITLEMENTS FOR NEW EMPLOYEES
Poll conducted: October 24, 2019
Total Participants: 108
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
When hiring new employees, do you recognize their previous experience with their former employer when determining their vacation entitlement, or do all new hires start at the bottom of the grid?
If past experience is recognized for a new employee, does the ongoing vacation entitlement continue to recognize their past experience, or is the employee held at the initial vacation time entitlement amount until they have been with the company for the length of time required to move to the next level? For example, the company vacation policy grants additional vacation time for employees at 5 years. At the time of the new hire, the company recognized 4 years of that employee’s experience when assigning their vacation entitlement. Would that employee meet the 5 year mark after 1 year with the company, or 5 years with the company?
Poll: ANNUAL TURNOVER RATES
Poll conducted: June 25, 2019
Total Participants: 102
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Definitions:
Annual Voluntary Turnover: Turnover that is due to employee-initiated departure in the past 12 months. It excludes retirements, dismissals, severance, and redundancies.
Annual Involuntary Turnover: Turnover due to employer-initiated departure in the past twelve months, e.g., severance, dismissals, redundancies, etc.
What is the total annual turnover rate (voluntary & involuntary combined) for the company as a whole?
What is the annual involuntary turnover rate for all hourly-paid employees?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for all hourly-paid employees?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for skilled labour, e.g. electricians, machinists, millwrights, etc.?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for all salaried employees?
Poll: EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT REVIEW SYSTEMS
Poll conducted: February 7, 2019
Total Participants: 83
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
What type of performance review program does your company use?
If electronic, which system do you use?
Is your performance review system a stand alone system or part of your HRIS?
Are you satisfied with the system you are using?
Do employees receive an overall performance rating?
Poll: OVERTIME INCENTIVES & VACATION POLICIES DURING CRITICAL PERIODS
Poll conducted: October 10, 2018
Total Participants: 89
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Has your company used exceptional pay practices to incentivize employees to work additional overtime hours during a critical period (on top of overtime pay)?
If yes, indicate the methods you utilize from the list below:
If a flat amount monetary incentive is provided, what would the typical employee receive in additional pay for working a full shift of overtime on a non-regularly scheduled shift (example, a full Saturday shift for an employee who works Mon-Fri)?
Which employees are eligible to receive the additional incentives?
Instead of incentivizing employees to work overtime, have you made overtime mandatory during critical periods?
If you have a “use it or lose it” vacation policy (for vacation beyond statutory minimums), have you temporarily suspended this policy during critical periods?
If yes, have you allowed?
Poll: BANKED TIME
Poll conducted: September 19, 2018
Total Participants: 89
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Do you allow employees to bank time (regular time or overtime)?
How much time is an employee allowed to bank in a year?
Employees are required to use their banked time within the following time frame:
In terms of the use and replenishment of the time bank – if an employee banks up to the maximum number of hours allowed, and then uses time from the bank, is the employee allowed to replenish their time bank up to the maximum allowable hours as they withdraw from the bank?
Do you pay out banked time if it is not used by a certain date?
If banked time is paid out, when is it paid out?
Poll: MEAL BREAKS
Poll conducted: September 19, 2018
Total Participants: 89
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
How long are company meal breaks?
What do most employees do at mealtime?
Does your company have an overnight shift?
How do you keep track of attendance for employees that leave for meals?
If employees can’t have meal breaks off-site, please specify why?
Poll: BONUSES & VACATION ENTITLEMENT ON LEAVES OF ABSENCES
Poll conducted: August 24, 2018
Total Participants: 100
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company have a bonus program?
Bonuses are paid to employees returning from short-term disability leave based on?
Bonuses are paid to employees returning from long-term disability leave based on?
Bonuses are paid to employees returning from ESA protected leave, e.g., maternity leave, based on?
Vacation entitlement for employees returning from short-term disability or long-term disability is based on?
Vacation entitlement for employees returning from ESA protected leave is based on?
Poll: JOB EVALUATION SYSTEMS
Poll conducted: July 20, 2018
Total Participants: 85
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company/organization use a formal job evaluation system for salaried positions to determine pay?
If yes, is your system points-based using various factors?
If yes, how many factors are used?
How are these factors captured?
If a multiple page document is used, how long is it?
If you are not using a point factor system, how do you evaluate jobs?
Do you use an employee-based job evaluation committee?
What triggers an evaluation of an existing position?
If a set schedule requirement, indicate how long between reviews?
Poll: SIGNING BONUSES
Poll conducted: March 8, 2018
Total Participants: 95
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company offer signing bonuses to any type of employees when hiring?
Categories of employees that are typically offered signing bonuses:
The bonus amount offered is determined by:
What is the average bonus/range of bonus paid upon signing?
If the employee does not stay in the position, are they required to pay back all or part of the bonus?
Poll: BILL 148 UPDATE
Poll conducted: February 7, 2018
Total Participants: 154
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
This is a follow-up to the poll we took last August (below) before Bill 148 passed.
How has your company handled the wages of employees who were already being paid above the new minimum wage?
Has your company raised hiring wages in order to attract new employees since Bill 148 passed?
Poll: PAID LEAVE FOR JURY DUTY
Poll conducted: January 25, 2018
Total Participants: 141
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Does your company provide employees with PAID leave for jury duty?
If yes, is there a maximum?
The maximum is:
Poll: STATIONARY ENGINEERS – PAY FOR WEEKEND HOURS
Poll conducted: November 16, 2017
Total Participants: 16
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Job Description: A stationary engineer operates and/or maintains stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operates steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers or operates as Shift Engineer under the direction of a Certified Chief Engineer a high-pressure steam plant.
Do your stationary engineers that work Saturday and Sunday as part of their regular scheduled work hours, i.e., Saturday and Sunday are part of their regular week, receive a higher rate of pay or premium?
If yes, please indicate how the premium is paid:
If a flat premium is added to pay, what is the bi-weekly amount?
Is your policy to pay a premium part of a collective agreement/union contract?
Poll: RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Poll conducted: November 8, 2017
Total Participants: 128
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
If any, which of the following benefits does your company offer to retirees?
The percentages below are calculated individually out of 100%.
‘Other’ category yielded:
Cake for shift/cake & presentation on last day
Retirement bonus based on years of service
Life insurance
Health and Dental for early retirees only until age 65
Benefits are reduced at age 65 to 50% and terminated at 70
Access to EAP for 3 months after retirement only
Pension transfer
Gift card
Health Insurance only
30 days travel for retiree and spouse
Poll: ANNUAL TURNOVER RATES
Poll conducted: October 19, 2017
Total Participants: 94
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
Definitions:
Annual Voluntary Turnover: Turnover that is due to employee-initiated departure in the past 12 months. It excludes retirements, dismissals, severance, and redundancies.
Annual Involuntary Turnover: Turnover due to employer-initiated departure in the past twelve months, e.g., severance, dismissals, redundancies, etc.
What is the total annual turnover rate (voluntary & involuntary combined) for the company as a whole?
What is the annual involuntary turnover rate for all hourly-paid employees?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for all hourly-paid employees?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for skilled labour, e.g. electricians, machinists, millwrights, etc.?
What is the annual voluntary turnover rate for all salaried employees?
Poll: BILL 148
Poll conducted: August 10, 2017
Total Participants: 72
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
With the proposed Ontario minimum wage increases, how does your organization plan to handle the wages of employees who are currently paid above that minimum amount?
With the proposed Pay Equity provisions in Bill 148 requiring wages for temporary employees (including temp agency employees) to be the same as full-time and permanent employees doing the same job, how does your organization plan to handle temp labour hired through agencies?
Poll: RELOCATION BENEFIT
Poll conducted: August 10, 2017
Total Participants: 72
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers.
A monetary relocation benefit or bonus is offered as part of the compensation package in your company:
The benefit is paid out as:
Categories of employees are eligible for relocation benefits are:
Poll: TOP QUALITIES SOUGHT FOR A LEAD HAND/TEAM LEADER
Poll conducted: June 14, 2017
Total Participants: 108
Participants were comprised of Ontario employers from the manufacturing industry.
Participants were invited to choose the top five key competencies they seek/require for a leadership role, e.g. team lead, in a manufacturing environment from the following list:
‘Other’ category yielded:
Accountability – Results Oriented
Understands company culture
Respect for diversity
Vision to change and improve operations
Quality, Integrity, Teamwork, Respect, Customer Focus, Leadership
Empathy
Respect for people, processes, and safety
Process improvement – lean manufacturing methods
Understanding company business priorities and how to take action in own area of responsibility
Mechanical ability – able to troubleshoot and or program, reset equipment
Engagement
Poll: BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
Bereavement Leave is available to employees:
Total votes: 115
Number of days granted:
Total votes: 113
The policy covers:
Total votes: 113