Recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers (2025):
By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors (Mar 17, 2025)
Here are some of the reasons why Société québécoise d'information juridique / SOQUIJ was selected as one of Montreal's Top Employers (2025):
- SOQUIJ encourages employees to plan ahead with retirement planning assistance and contributions to a defined benefit pension plan -- additionally, the organization offers phased-in work options for those nearing retirement, allowing them to gradually reduce their hours
- SOQUIJ helps employees balance work and their personal commitments with a variety of flexible work options and 12 paid personal days each year -- the organization also helps to promote work-life balance with four weeks of starting vacation allowance
- SOQUIJ provides maternity and parental leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers (to 100 per cent of salary for up to 21 weeks), as well as parental top-up for fathers and adoptive parents (to 100 per cent of salary for up to six weeks)
The office entrance at SOQUIJ
Highlights
| Industry | Provincial government, legal services |
| Established in Canada | 1976 |
| Major Canadian locations | Montréal QC |
| Full-time employees in Canada | 136 |
| Part-time employees in Canada | 7 |
| Average age of employees in Canada | 46 years |
| Longest serving employee | 40 years |
| Flexible work options | hybrid work option, flexible work hours, 35-hour work week (with full pay), compressed work week, shortened work week (fewer hours with less pay) |
| Long-term savings | defined-benefit (DB) pension |
| Mental health practitioner benefit | up to $1,000 each year |
| Maternity top-up (mothers) | up to 100% of salary for 21 weeks |
| Parental top-up (fathers) | up to 100% of salary for 6 weeks |
| Adoption top-up | up to 100% of salary for 6 weeks |
| Vacation allowance | new employees receive 4 weeks of paid vacation after their first year on the job |
| Employee performance reviews | employees receive individual performance reviews every 6 months |
| In-house training initiatives | in-house training, online training, paid internships |
| Tuition subsidies (related to job) | yes |
| Employee charitable involvement | employees receive paid time off to volunteer, (up to 1 paid day) |