Here are some of the reasons why Red River College Polytechnic was selected as one of Manitoba's Top Employers (2022):

• Red River College supports employees who are new parents with maternity and parental leave top-up payments, to 93 per cent of salary for up to 17 weeks, and offers the convenience of onsite child care when they are ready to return to work
• As part of Red River College's health benefits plan, employees receive a health spending account of up to $850 per year, allowing them to top up coverage as needed
• Along with tuition support and in-house training programs, Red River College established the Centre for Learning and Program Excellence to provide relevant and personalized development opportunities to educators and administrators -- the centre maintains a dedicated consultant for each employee group to ensure that learning needs are continually assessed and addressed

Here are some of the reasons why Red River College Polytechnic was selected as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers (2022):

• In the past year, Red River College launched a corporate equity, diversity and inclusion action plan which includes a number of initiatives related to employee equity data, assessing and resolving barriers to inclusion in the recruitment and selection process, ensuring diversity is represented in leadership development programs, and building a culture of anti-racism at the college
• As part of the college's final Indigenous recruitment, retention and outreach strategy, the college developed partnerships with AMIK.ca as well as the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development in order to widen its pipeline for recruitment of Indigenous talent

Here are some of the reasons why Red River College Polytechnic was selected as one of Canada's Greenest Employers (2022):

• Red River College was one of the first large employers in Winnipeg to launch a disposable mask recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle's extensive recycling program -- the program was launched in February 2021 and collected over 13,500 disposable masks for recycling in its first two months
• Red River College maintains a growing green building footprint, including the BOMA Best-certified Roblin Centre (features one of the province's largest solar panel arrays), Vehicle Technology and Energy Centre (over 25 per cent of building materials contain recycled content and passive solar systems help to pre-heat indoor air), and the LEED Gold-certified Paterson GlobalFoods Institute (features a heat recapture system that recycles cooking heat from culinary arts labs and kitchens)
• Red River College employees not only assist with caring for the school's rooftop beehives but also participate in the Winnipeg Harvest Grow-A-Row program, growing and donating harvested produce for the Winnipeg Harvest Food Bank and the Students' Association Food Bank -- honey production is also jarred and sold at the on-campus farmers market