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2026 WINNERS
WILLIAMS LAKE FN
BC’S TOP EMPLOYERS (2026)
Continued
monthly events with senior leaders who
share their personal and professional
experiences with younger colleagues.
UNITED WAY BRITISH COLUMBIA,
Burnaby. Charitable organizations; 200
employees. Helps employees seek
work-life balance through a number of
flexible work options, including flex
hours, a shortened work week and hybrid
arrangements.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH
COLUMBIA, Prince George. Post-secondary schools, universities; 686 employees.
Encourages employees to keep fit with
subsidized memberships to extensive
fitness facilities and services, including
lunch hour sports, personal trainer and
physiotherapy services.
UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY
/ UFV, Abbotsford. Post-secondary
schools, university; 993 employees.
Supports all new parents with maternity
and parental leave top-up payments and
offers the option to extend their leave into
an unpaid leave of absence.
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, Victoria.
Post-secondary schools, university; 3,220
employees. Along with being a bikefriendly campus (and city), the university
helps employees get to work with transit
subsidies and an online carpool sign-up
system.
V
ANCOUVER AQUARIUM,
Vancouver. Aquarium and
marine conservation; 158
employees. Employees receive
generous discounts on food and beverages
at the property and receive passes for their
friends and family members (up to 48
passes annually).
VANCOUVER, CITY OF, Vancouver.
Municipal governments; 8,878 employees.
Encourages employees to stay healthy and
active through the “FitCity” initiative that
features a monthly newsletter, online
resources, discounted access to fitness
facilities and more.
VANCOUVER CITY SAVINGS CREDIT
UNION, Vancouver. Credit unions; 2,235
employees. Supports new moms with
generous maternity and parental leave
top-up payments, to 85 per cent of salary
for 76 weeks.
VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH,
Vancouver. Hospitals; 15,790 employees.
Reaches out to the next generation of
Williams Lake First Nation offers three weeks of paid vacation to start, plus up to 14 days off during year-end holidays.
health care professionals through co-ops,
paid internships and apprenticeships, and
follows up with numerous in-house and
online training programs.
VANCOUVER FILM STUDIOS, Vancouver. Motion picture studios; 30 employees.
Offers generous maternity and parental
leave top-up payments for new moms to 75
per cent of salary for 52 weeks.
VANCOUVER FOUNDATION, Vancouver. Non-profit grantmaking foundations;
79 employees. Dedicates one Friday every
month as “Learning Friday,” scheduled in
advance and features three hours of
dedicated training for employees.
VANCOUVER FRASER PORT
AUTHORITY, Vancouver. Port authorities;
531 employees. Encourages employees to
volunteer for causes that are important to
them with donations of $500 for every 40
hours volunteered.
VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT,
Vancouver. Police services; 1,969
employees. Encourages all employees to
keep fit and healthy with free access to
a fully equipped on-site fitness facility
that features a variety of instructor-led
classes.
VGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION,
Vancouver. Charitable organizations; 98
employees. Helps employees balance their
day-to-day responsibilities with flexible
hours, earned days off and hybrid work
options, including the ability to work from
anywhere for up to two weeks at a time.
WESTERN FOREST PRODUCTS INC.,
Vancouver. Lumber products; 1,481
employees. Encourages ongoing professional development with financial bonuses
for the completion of professional
accreditations, from $700 to $2,000
depending on the program.
VICTORIA AIRPORT AUTHORITY,
North Saanich. Airport operations; 60
employees. Helps employees plan ahead
with retirement planning assistance
services along with generous contributions
to a defined benefit pension plan.
WEST FRASER TIMBER CO. LTD.,
Vancouver. Sawmills; 5,224 employees.
Varying by employee group, employees
can plan for life after work with defined
contribution and defined benefit pension
plans.
W
ARRINGTON PCI
MANAGEMENT,
Vancouver. Real estate
management; 220 employees. Encourages ongoing professional
development with subsidies for professional accreditation and generous tuition
subsidies for job-related courses, to $2,000
annually.
WESGROUP EQUIPMENT LP, Surrey.
Industrial machinery and equipment
distribution; 159 employees. Participates in
the long-standing One Tree Planted
program, with more than 21,000 trees
planted to date through the partnership.
WILLIAMS LAKE FIRST NATION,
Williams Lake. First Nations government
services; 101 employees. In addition to
three weeks of paid starting vacation, all
employees receive up to 14 additional days
off during the year-end holidays.
WORKSAFEBC, Vancouver. Workplace
health and safety programs; 4,126 employees. Hosts formal Working Mind mental
health training sessions for employees and
managers in partnership with the Mental
Health Commission of Canada.
– Richard Yerema & Kristina Leung
