What’s New From the Network?
Karen Corday July 17th, 2009
New from the Network:
- Four new Bills by Theme: Paid Family Leave, Unpaid Family Leave, School Involvement Leave, and Dependent Care.
- New Work and Family Leader: Alysa Lambert
- Over 290 new bills and statutes in the Bills and Statutes Database.
- Our Work and Family Blog is one of OnlineCollege.org’s 100 Powerful Blogs for Your Self-Improvement.
- We’d like to feature more Workplace Flexibility Case Studies on our site. Interested in being a case study or know a good candidate? Please e-mail me at cordayATbc.edu; thanks!
- The web was all abuzz this week about Jack Welch’s controversial remarks on work-life balance at SHRM’s annual conference. Lauren Young of BusinessWeek.com mentioned our poll on readers’ preferred way of describing the effort to manage work and life in her article “Why Jack Welch is Good for the Work-Life Debate.”
New, free work-family content online:
- Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy: Sixteen Percent Of High-Impact, High-Tech Firms Founded By Immigrant Entrepreneurs
- Office of the Press Secretary, White House: Council of Economic Advisers Releases Report on Jobs of the Future
- Pew Internet & American Life Project: The Internet and the Recession
- Fraser America: Health Insurance and Bankruptcy Rates in Canada and the United States
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: Risk Pooling and the Market Crash: Lessons From Canada’s Pension Plan
- IZA: Causes and Consequences of a Father’s Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes
- Corporate Voices for Working Families: The Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce: Exploring the Challenges of Employer-Provided Workforce Readiness Training
- Wider Opportunities for Women: Policy Brief on Family-Friendly Workplace
