"Flexo Products – Niagara
Falls, Ontario supplies cleaning products of every kind to
institutions, hotels and schools. After years of working with
younger employees who turned over at a high rate, Flexo
discovered that hiring mature workers made sense. They have an
outstanding affect on their production area, an increase in
safety and a measurable increase in productivity. Flexo also
have no mandatory retirement."
About the Best Employers for 50-Plus Canadians
Awards
The
Best Employers for 50-Plus Canadians Awards are open to all
Canadian companies with more than 20 employees. Winners were
selected based on an application and in-depth interview.
Criteria for the awards are excellence in the areas of hiring,
training, career development, health care, employee and family
benefits, retirement policy, pensions and pre- and post
retirement support systems.
The
awards are designed to recognize and reward innovative and
effective programs or initiatives within organizations that lead
the way in best practices with the 50-Plus workers while
achieving organizational goals. Nominees were asked to
demonstrate how their organization has introduced or tried new
ideas or programs with mature employees and the rewards they
have reaped from doing so.
Other winners included Carrier
Trucks Center Inc. Brantford, Catholic Children's Aid Society of
Toronto, City of Calgary, Direct Energy, Excell Services, Merck
Frosst, Orkin/PCO Services Corporation, Seven Oaks General
Hospital, Winnipeg.
For more information, go to:
www.summitonthematureworkforce.com or
www.50plusbestemployers.com.
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