All supervisor positions paid minimum wage, the same as the counsellors therefore there is literally no compensation for all of the extra work involved in those positions. Head Office, particularly the CEO, Kevin is also highly passive aggressive, condescending, rude and insensitive to everyones time and life except his own. For example, the employees of the camp are paid by a Canada Summer Jobs Grant and some locations were only granted 35 hours of payed work a week, however, the camps are open from 8:00am-5:00pm everyday...meaning the majority of the time the camps are understaffed for parts of the day as people have to come in and leave at different times as they are only paid for 7 hour work days. Usually, we experienced the greatest difficulty with this at pick up and drop off as about half the staff would come in in the morning for 8am but the other half could not come in until closer to 9:30am-10am so they could stay until 5pm because the counsellors who would come in at 8 would be done around 3pm. When this was brought up in training, Kevin actually suggested that people take "very long breaks" to be at camp the entire day without being paid... specifically the Lead Counsellors, AC's and health and safety officers who were somehow "required" by head office to be around during drop off AND pick up despite being only paid for 7 hour days. STEM camp also did not pay for employees lunch breaks despite requiring them to be with the kids and work through their lunches, meaning there were no breaks given throughout the day, a direct violation of labor laws. Lastly, training was conducted poorly, and one of the sections of our training actually included this fun part about how if a person was sexually harassed and a complaint about it landed on your desk as a supervisor, we were told to "encourage the person to "SPEAK FIRST TO THEIR OFFENDER TO ENSURE IT WAS NOT A MISUNDERSTANDING." Training overall was poorly conducted, there was never enough supplies at camp, and also fun fact, STEM camp did not issue refunds for parents who had registered in 2020 when camps were cancelled claiming they "spend the money on supplies" but this year Head Office admitted to us in training they bought no new supplies despite having all of last years and this years money to use. Lastly, the existing supplies was always low, some camps were given supplies for 30 kids and upped to 40 kids with no additional supplies given ( us counsellors weren't told either, I guess a 10 person increase isnt something the staff need to know about), most of the experiments are crappy and dont work, and training will teach you nothing. If you complain or voice your concerns, Kevin is literally the most condescending individual you will ever meet so good luck.
