What We Offer

Oshawa Advantage

Start Strong! The City's most important resource, is our people.

The Oshawa Advantage

The City of Oshawa values its employees and provides a competitive and comprehensive program to attract, retain, develop and inspire staff. The Oshawa Advantage includes:

Employee Development, Advancement and Education

Talent Graduation Cap management is the umbrella term for how we support talent throughout the entire life cycle of an employee from hire to retire. It starts with attracting talent (the right people for the right jobs), onboarding talent (setting our new people up for success), developing talent (through our various training and development programs), retaining talent (making sure our people are engaged and happy to work here), and even offboarding talent (helping our people transition successfully into retirement or to a new opportunity).

The City of Oshawa is dedicated to providing our employees with fulfilling careers, career development and life-long learning opportunities.

We enable our employees in reaching their career goals by providing the following:

Professional Development Opportunities
Ongoing Performance Management
Secondment/Acting Positions
Education Reimbursement
Functional, Skills-Based and Leadership Training and Coaching
Employee Orientation and Onboarding

Worklife, Wellness and Health

Health Wellness Leaf y is the new "Happy"! The City of Oshawa is committed to providing our employees with a healthy, safe, inclusive, accessible, and supportive workplace that is consistent with our Core Values. Through education, training and promotion of wellness and safety programs, we recognize the importance of a healthy workplace and work-life balance that promotes employee growth and wellness.

The City of Oshawa has established an active Healthy Workplace Program, which celebrates and recognizes the importance of a healthy lifestyle at work and at home.

We actively work to promote a healthy environment for our employees through a variety of programs and initiatives including:

workLIFE Program - helps our employees balance work and personal life through various options such as:

Compressed Work Week
Flex-Hours
Flex-Bank
Reduced Schedule
Telecommuting
More Programs

Employee Family Assistance Program

Health & Wellness Fairs
Clinics and Screenings
Healthy Eating Seminars
Employee Communications
Mental Health Training
Support for personal protective equipment and services (safety footwear, job specific PPE)
Casual Friday

Employee Recognition, Workperks and Discounts

For your hardworking ways, you deserve some praise. It’s important to us that employees feel recognized and valued for their hard work and dedication.

We also offer and have partnered with other third parties to provide high value offers and preferred pricing.

As a City of Oshawa employee, we recognize you and you have access to many great perks and discount programs including:

Our Offers

On-the-spot 360 degree recognition program
Service Awards based on amount of years with the City
Free Parking
Annual Staff Appreciation BBQ hosted by City Council
City Recreation facility/Fitness membership discount
Corporate cell phone discounts
Animal adoption discounts
Tribute Community Centre ticket discounts

Workperks

Discounts from different providers and services such as: Entertainment, Apparel, Electronics, Food, Health, Home and Living, Travel

Salary and Monetary Incentives

You g Money ot paid! We offer salaries and incentives that are competitive to the market and reflect the cost of living.

The City of Oshawa compensation framework is designed to attract, retain and motivate employees while aligning with relevant legislation, including pay equity and Ontario Employment Standards.

The City of Oshawa offers competitive salaries and monetary incentives including:

Annual salary increases and step progressions
Up to fourteen paid holidays per year (including Christmas eve, New Year's eve, Easter Monday and Remembrance Day)
Overtime pay
Competitive salaries through our job evaluation system process

Health Benefits and Insurance

We care about your health and want to help protect you and your family. The City of Oshawa offers Health comprehensive health benefits and insurance programs at no cost to employees.

Our Health Benefits offset the cost of services and products not fully covered by provincial health care.

These services and products include:

Semi Private Hospitalization
Extended Health Care, Vision, Dental and Travel Insurance
Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, and Long-Term Disability Insurance

Retirement and Savings

Saving for the future is important! Retirement pensions and defined benefit plans offered by companies have Savings become a thing of the past. The City of Oshawa recognizes the importance of these and employees are eligible to participate in various retirement programs in order to help them plan and save for their retirement along with being recognized for their service.

Participating staff receive:

Lifetime retirement income by contributing to a defined benefit pension plan through Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
Enhance your retirement savings by investing in a voluntary contribution program
Offset the cost of services and products not fully covered by provincial health care through the Retiree Benefits Plan
Retirement education sessions and receive a retirement gift in recognition of their service and dedication

(Please note that this information is primarily based on full time permanent employment. Some of the programs and incentives may not apply to all positions)