National Capital Region's Top Employers (2026) Magazine - Magazine - Page 5
recharge and focus on life outside work.”
Carleton University has appeared on
the National Capital Region’s Top Employers
list for more than 10 years. The institution
supports wellness initiatives and both
professional and personal growth. Among
its offerings are customizable packages to
support employees’ educational ambitions
and flexible leave policies, reflecting the
understanding that employees lead rich
lives beyond work.
“With 22 annual
vacation days,
generous parental and
adoption leave with a
21-week top-up at 95
per cent salary... the
university ensures that
staff feel supported
during life’s pivotal
moments.”
– ELLEN MELIS, ASSOCIATE VP &
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER, CARLETON UNIVERSITY
“With 22 annual vacation days, generous
parental and adoption leave with a 21-week
top-up at 95 per cent salary, and options
for extended or deferred leave, the
university ensures that staff feel supported
during life’s pivotal moments,” says Ellen
Melis, associate vice-president, human
resources and chief people officer, with
Carleton.
With announced federal government
layoffs, Richard Yerema, executive editor at
Canada’s Top 100 Employers, believes that
the private sector employers in the NCR
are well positioned, having spent years
benchmarking and introducing benefit
programs to compete with their public
sector counterparts.
“For these private sector employers, the
combination of employment prospects
with solid benefit offerings places them in
a good position when it comes to recruiting today and in the months, and possibly
years, ahead.”
This story was created by Content Works, Postmedia’s commercial content division, on behalf
of National Capital Region’s Top Employers.
VCH
Continued
5
PHOTOS (FROM TOP):
1. Hydro Ottawa offers an engineering
intern training and development
program for new grads.
2. Montfort Hospital / Hôpital
Montfort supports new mothers
with maternity and parental leave
top-up (to 93 per cent of salary up
to 25 weeks) and offers parental
leave top-up for new fathers and
adoptive parents (to 93 per cent of
salary for 10 weeks).
HÔPITAL MONTFORT
CHANGING WORKFORCE
HYDRO OTTAWA
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION’S TOP EMPLOYERS (2026)
