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BC’S TOP EMPLOYERS (2025)
BC’S TOP EMPLOYERS
Anthony Meehan,
PUBLISHER
Editorial Team:
Richard Yerema,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Kristina Leung,
MANAGING EDITOR
Chantel Watkins,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sonja Verpoort,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Juliane Fung,
RESEARCH EDITOR
Cypress Weston,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Vithusa Vimalathasan,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Krista Robinson,
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Advertising Team:
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MANAGING DIRECTOR, PUBLISHING
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MANAGER, PUBLISHING
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PUBLISHING COORDINATOR
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SENIOR BRANDING & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Sponsored Profile Writers:
Berton Woodward,
SENIOR EDITOR
Brian Bethune
Deborah Bourk
Abigail Cukier
Mary Dickie
Steven Frank
Don Hauka
Patricia Hluchy
D’Arcy Jenish
Diane Jermyn
Sara King-Abadi
Michael McCullough
Kelsey Rolfe
Stacey Stein
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EMPLOYERS is a product of Mediacorp. The Vancouver Sun distributes the online
magazine but is not involved in the editorial content, judging or selection of
winners.BC’S TOP EMPLOYERS is a registered trade mark of Mediacorp. Editorial
inquiries: ct100@mediacorp.ca
Employees at First Credit Union in Powell River receive paid time off to volunteer at local charities – last
year, the credit union assisted over 50 groups and organized a special Community Impact Day for volunteers.
W
ith the steady din of alarming news
coming from our U.S. neighbour the
past few weeks, British Columbia
residents might be excused for thinking
that sky might indeed be falling soon.
Such is the power of the current administration in
Washington to ‘flood the zone’ with all manner of
headlines, so that we forget there is in fact any other news.
For British Columbia, the news over the past year has in
fact never been better. The province leads the country in
economic growth and has become one of the fastest-growing low-carbon economies in North America. With
deep-water ports and an export-driven economy that’s
building its business in Asia, the province is showing the
path for the rest of Canada as the country processes its
own zeitenwende.
Employers in British Columbia are also leading the way
when it comes to creating outstanding workplaces that
place a premium on making their operations as sustainable as possible. In every part of B.C., employers large and
small are raising the bar and changing what it means to be
an employer of choice. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the BC’s Top Employers competition, but readers
would be hard-pressed to find a single winner standing on
their laurels.
For example, at BC Investment Management Corp.
and Yulu Public Relations, employees can now work
remotely from anywhere up to four weeks annually. Or
consider Kwantlen Polytechnic in Surrey, which is
piloting a new program (‘Ride Along’) that lets employees
try out totally new roles in the organization.
Burnaby-based Etro Construction helps all employees
who become parents with generous maternity and
parental leave top-up, to 100% of salary for 26 weeks.
University of British Columbia / UBC is a national leader
in helping employees start new families, with coverage for
fertility drugs and treatments, surrogacy, and adoption to a
lifetime maximum of $50,000.
Up in Fort St. John, the BC Energy Regulator maintains
a special support program for its 292 employees (‘We
Care’), which provides temporary financial support to staff
facing unforeseen emergencies. Langley-based First
Credit Union and Vancouver’s MEC Mountain Equipment Co. both offer similar initiatives (‘Back on Track’ and
‘MEC Care Days’, respectively).
Vancouver’s Arrow Transportation helps employees
manage the sky-high costs of post-secondary education by
providing scholarships to $3,500 per child each year. Over
at Century Group Lands in New Westminister, employees
receive help with high cost of housing through a valuable
discount (3%) on the purchase of a company-built home.
Vancouver-based Hudson Pacific Properties encourages employees to give back to the community by providing
four paid days off to volunteer at local charities, while
matching employee donations to $1,000 annually. Over at
Longboard Architectural Products in Abbotsford, the
company matches employee donations to a generous
$10,000 per year per employee. At Oppenheimer Group
in Coquitlam and TYBO Contracting in Langley,
employees receive two paid days off annually to volunteer
at local charities.
To learn more about these and other initiatives at this
year’s winners, I encourage you to read the detailed
‘reasons for selection’ our editors released this mornng:
www.canadastop100.com/bc. If your organization would like
to be considered for next year’s competition, I invite you to
reach out to our editorial team at ct100@mediacorp.ca.
– Tony Meehan
