Family Friendly Local Business Practices
Many local businesses are already doing great things! Some ideas include:
- Creating a "bring your child to work on snow days policy". Using a conference room and a babysitter to watch the kids for the day. Or having employee/parents take shifts watching the kids.
- Paying part of the cost of child care for their employees.
- Offering on-site child care for infants by hiring an on-site nanny.
- Sponsoring parent support groups who meet to problem solve issues such as "how to handle snow days".
- Creating a "babies at work" policy for infants under 6 months of age.