Rewards & Benefits

Compensation:

We believe in rewarding our staff as generously as possible since our success is linked to your success. We offer our staff competitive wages and salaries. Wages are reviewed annually and are calculated based on individual performance, industry and market benchmarks and budgetary considerations.

Bonus & Incentive Plans:

We believe in rewarding individuals based on their own performance and depending on your role we have bonus programs for achieving sales or productivity targets while others are rewarded for completing training. We also need to work together as a team so in addition to individual incentives we have group incentives designed to reward the team's performance.

Health & Dental Benefits:

Our extended health and dental insurance provides you coverage for things like prescription drugs, paramedical practitioners (i.e. massage, physiotherapy, and chiropractic), hospital and ambulance services and dental coverage for routine check-ups and partial coverage for major procedures.

Travel Insurance is also part of our health coverage and provides coverage for medical emergencies that occur while travelling out of province.

To complement the extended health and dental benefits, we have a health spending account (HSA) which can be used to supplement our benefit plan on a tax free basis. Health spending account credits (dollars) are allocated into the HSA every November based on your length of service. The credit amount ranges from $500 - $1250 in credits per year.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP):

Our employee assistance program provides you and your dependents access to free professional confidential assistance services.

If you or someone in your family is having some family, personal or work related problems, dependency issues, has legal questions (criminal / tax law not included), needs some assistance with some financial problems, or assisting with situations related to eldercare and/or childcare please call 1-844-556-1774 to speak to a Solareh representative now.

Retirement Savings:

Saving for retirement is important and to assist you in achieving your retirement goals. Participating in the Group RRSP plan is voluntary but some of the added benefits of the group plan versus an individual RRSP plan are the lower investment management fees plus the simplicity of contributing via payroll deduction and the tax savings being realized at source each pay.

Group Insurance

Our group insurance plan is designed to provide coverage to help you and your family deal with a catastrophic event like a death or disabling injury or illness. We have three main types of coverage on our plan; disability insurance, life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.

Disability:

Disability insurance is arguably the most important coverage inside our group plan since it provides income replacement at a time when you are unable to work due to illness or injury. In our plan we have both short term and long term disability coverage. Disability benefits are a non-taxable benefit. The coverage is mandatory for all employees and it does not cover dependents.

Short Term Disability Benefit is 66.67% of Weekly Gross Earnings up to maximum of $1000 per week.

Long Term Disability Benefit is 66.67% of first $4K gross monthly earnings plus 56% of the balance to a maximum of $9K per month.

Life and Dependent Life Insurance:

Group life insurance is a benefit to assist you and your loved ones in the event of your passing. Our life insurance benefit is calculated at 2 times annual earnings up to a non-evidence maximum of $100,000. This coverage is mandatory for staff and any benefits paid are non-taxable to the designated beneficiary. It is important to keep your beneficiary designations up to date as your life circumstances change as the life insurance proceeds are paid the designated beneficiary on file.

You can apply for additional optional life insurance through the group plan but it is subject to approval by the insurer.

In addition to basic life insurance we have dependent life coverage in our plan that provides the member a benefit in the event your spouse or dependent child passes away. This benefit is currently $10,000 spouse and $5,000 child and it is also a non-taxable benefit. Dependent life is always paid to the plan member and is there to assist you with funeral and other related out of pocket expenses.

AD&D - Accidental Death and Dismemberment:

Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage within our plan is a low cost but valuable insurance that provides lump sum benefits if you are injured in an accident and your injuries result in death, dismemberment, paralysis or a loss of use. Our AD&D coverage includes a critical illness component as well that will pay a benefit if you are diagnosed with one of four specified illness.

AD&D coverage is only for employees only and does not extend to dependents.

Tool Insurance

Service Technicians who keep their tools and tool boxes onsite are able to purchase tool insurance to protect against a loss due to fire, theft or vandalism. We know you have spent an entire career accumulating the tools of the trade and we offer affordable protection to give you peace of mind that your investment and livelihood are protected.

Training

Truck systems and functions are becoming more complex and integrated and we need to be experts to provide the customers the best solutions. In our dealership you have access to the best training in the industry and with the advancements in technology we expect you to complete training to stay up to date in your area of expertise.

OnCommand Education:

OnCommand Education is Navistar's online training portal and it offers a wide range of training tailored to your occupation from product knowledge to customer support to technical service training. The training is accessible 24 hours a day seven days a week through the OnCommand Education portal. You just need to login with your user ID at www.navistarlearning.com.

Engine Training:

We have access to the latest engine training courses from the new N Series engines to MaxxForce, and Cummins ISX and ISB. Access to the engine training is done through the OnCommand Education portal or Cummins Virtual College. Once the online courses are complete you can attend in person classes. Overnight travel may be required to complete any in person courses.

Training Facility:

We have a state of the art training facility where our internal trainer conducts training seminars on the latest technologies and products in the industry. We have a full complement of training tools to give participants the best learning experience possible.

Paid Time Off

Time off is important to allow you to relax and recharge so you can come back to the workplace refreshed and ready to provide the service and support that our customers require. In addition to our vacation entitlements which range from 2 weeks to 5 weeks based on your years of service we recognize eleven general holidays. Plus if you need time off due to the passing of a family member we have a paid bereavement leave to help you during your time of loss.

Other paid time off may be granted but are reviewed and approved on a case by case basis.