Caring for Children - Employer Involvement

Employers are increasingly providing family leave beyond the requirements of the FMLA as well as providing

FIGURE 3.3

assistance to employees in finding child care. Employers have found that providing such benefits can pay off in increased productivity, worker recruitment and retention, and community goodwill. According to Pilot Survey on the Incidence of Child Care Resource and Referral Services in June 2000 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2000), 13.8% of workers in private industry, as well as in state and local government, had access to child-care resource and referral services. Most often these services were provided to employees by outside resources rather than directly by their employers. People working for large establishments (employing five thousand or more workers) fare best in access to child-care resources. (See Figure 3.3.)