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Workplace Flexibility: Ensuring Success for
the 21st Century
Ryan, Inc. and Ovation Networks, Inc.
Become Business Champions in National Campaign
 Corporate
Voices would like to congratulate Ryan, Inc. and Ovation Networks, Inc. for joining our workplace
flexibility campaign since our last update, and for committing their support
for Corporate Voices' Statement
of Support for Expanding Workplace Flexibility.
They join a growing number of businesses that have joined this campaign to
recognize the value that workplace flexibility holds for the success of businesses and
families. Recent Business Champions include: Accenture, Allstate
Insurance Company, AOL, Baxter International, Bright
Horizons Family Solutions, Childrens' Creative Learning Centers, Cisco
Systems, Ernst & Young, Georgetown University,
Knowledge Universe, KPMG, LifeCare, Marriott International,McGladreySM, Sodexo, and Workplace Options, among
others.
Business
Champions recognize that workplace flexibility practices enable businesses to
modernize the workplace to meet the needs of the 21st century workforce so that
working families and businesses can be more productive, more competitive,
healthier, and happier. Increasingly, universities and non-profits are also
joining this campaign, illustrating how flexibility can support excellence and high
quality results within non-profits and universities as well as within
businesses.
With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Corporate Voices launched
this campaign on June 28, after the White
House announced in March that Corporate Voices would lead a campaign to
create a broader awareness of the positive business and employee benefits of
workplace flexibility. We are now inviting all of our corporate partners to
sign our Statement of Support for
Expanding Workplace Flexibility and lead the business community in this
effort.
We look
forward to expanding this campaign through grassroots awareness raising
activities across the country. Corporate Voices and its Partner Coalition will
work to galvanize business engagement around regional flexibility forums that the Women's Bureau will host throughout the year in Los
Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, and New
York. All Business Champions that have signed our
Statement will be invited.
Corporate
Voices applauds the efforts of our Business Champions and Partners in spreading
the word about this important work-life initiative. To see recent examples of
media coverage and promotional activities, as well as a complete list of
Business Champions and campaign updates, please visit: www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign.
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Webinar:
New Federal Requirements on Workplace Lactation
 With the passage of health care reform earlier this year, the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act has introduced a new employer requirement to
provide space and time for nursing mothers to pump milk at work.
What is this new law, and what does it mean for businesses and employees?
How can employers implement successful workplace lactation programs and
practices that enhance business performance and help working families?
Corporate Voices for Working Families and the Retail Industry
Leaders Association were pleased to host a webinar for the business community to
answer these questions on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. Executives from over 55
top U.S.
retail companies across several industries, including apparel, consumer
electronics, department stores, and home improvement joined the webinar.
Featured speakers were: Tiffany Westover-Kernan, Vice President for Business
Development and Government Relations at Corporate Voices, Yvonne Siu, Manager,
Communications and Government Relations at Corporate Voices, and Portia Wu,
Vice President of the National
Partnership for Women and Families. They presented on:
- The new requirements of the amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act;
- What kind of businesses and
employees it applies to;
- Next steps on implementation by the Wage & Hour Division at the Department of Labor;
- How businesses can comply
with the federal law in a way that increases employee recruitment,
retention, and integrates workplace lactation programs into a
productivity-enhancing management strategy; and
- Existing practical toolkits and resources employers can use to implement and
maintain workplace lactation programs.
We look forward to working with the business community in the coming months
to guide them to resources they can use to implement successful workplace
lactation practices. We also invite you to share best practices on workplace
lactation rooms or programs with us for inclusion in our toolkits and resources, so that we can include them in our toolkits and
resources. If you are interested in sharing a best practice, please contact
Yvonne Siu at ysiu@corporatevoices.org.
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Corporate Voices Releases Business Leaders Survey Findings on Workforce Readiness
 When Corporate Voices joined the Ready by 21 National Partnership, it committed to surveying national and local business leaders to learn their views on workforce readiness and to challenge them to invest, engage and insist on powering up the workforce readiness talent pipeline as a business imperative.
Corporate Voices surveyed more than 150 business leaders during a variety of conferences, focus groups and calls. Corporate Voices found that 96 percent of business leaders agree that their organization considers workforce readiness a critical business imperative. For a complete copy of the findings, please visit http://www.corporatevoices.org/publication-toolkits/business-toolkit-and-tools.
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What We're Reading
2009 ICW Annual Report, Institute for a Competitive Workforce, 2010.
Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress on Avoiding a Lost Generation: How to Minimize the Impact of the Great Recession on Young Workers, The Urban Institute, May 26, 2010.
Lack of skilled workers threatens recovery: Manpower, Reuters, August 25, 2010.
A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2010.
Child Hunger and Family Food Insecurity Within the Latino Community, National Council of La Raza, 2010.
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