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Creating family-friendly workplaces |
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Discusses what workplaces can do to offer family-friendly practices to facilitate work-life balance. Looks at issues, solutions, challenges, myths and practical steps to take to create a family-friendly workplace. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Work and family provisions in Canadian collective agreements |
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Examines family-friendly provisions that facilitate work-life balance, as found in major Canadian collective agreements. Topics include organization of working time; maternity, parental and adoption provisions; other leave and vacations; child care; and, employee benefits. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) |
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Work-life compendium 2001: 150 Canadian statistics on work, family & well-being |
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Reports on Canadian work-life facts, statistics and trends on topics such as changes in Canadian families, labour force participation patterns, organizational and workplace change, work structure and work time, child care and eldercare, work-life issues for employees and employers, and labour legislation. |
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Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW) |
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Workplace programs, policies and practices (work-life balance) |
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Describes and provides examples of various work-life policies, programs and practices in workplaces. Topics include dependent care initiatives, workplace flexibility, reduction of working time, work-life stress management, and leave and benefits. |
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Source: Human Resources and Social Development (HRSD) |
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Family-friendly practices and flexibility in small companies in Canada |
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Reports on family-friendly practices in small businesses across Canada. Identifies challenges in small companies and examines strategies that owners and managers can use to meet the needs of their employees and improve business outcomes. |
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Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being (CFWW) |
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Work and family |
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Contains excerpts from two books. 'The Manager's Work-Family Toolkit' outlines how to create a supportive work environment. 'From the kitchen table to the boardroom table : the Canadian family and the workplace' analyzes the conflict between work and family. Includes ordering information. |
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Source: Vanier Institute of the Family (VIF) |
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Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being |
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Promotes individual and family well-being, responsive and productive work environments, and strong, sustainable communities through strategic research, policy analysis, best practices development, and education. Web site includes an events calendar and on-line publications.
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Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being (CFWW) |
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Work and family balance |
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Describes a program that works with Saskatchewan people, organizations, businesses, and communities to help develop, implement, and maintain work and family balance strategies. Includes news, events, recent research, publications, and examples of family friendly organizations. |
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Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour |
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Part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces |
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Profiles the frequency and distribution of part-time work and family-friendly practices in Canadian workplaces. Examines the relationships between workplace characteristics or worker/job characteristics and employee and workplace outcomes.
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Balancing work and home |
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Outlines the benefits of family-supportive workplaces for employers and employees. Suggests how employers can create these environments. Helps employees identify causes of stress in their lives and offers tips to balance work and home. |
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Source: City of Ottawa |
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How to be a pregnancy friendly workplace: policies and practices that make a difference |
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Discusses the benefits of a pregnancy friendly workplace; discrimination and the rights of pregnant workers; reproductive health risks in the workplace and how to reduce them; and, offers examples of pregnancy friendly eduction, policies and practices. |
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Source: Best Start |
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Creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace: resource package |
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Discusses how workers and employers benefit from a breastfeeding-friendly workplaces. Provides information on how to create a breastfeeding-friendly workplace, a template for creating a workplace policy, and resources for breastfeeding mothers returning to work. |
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Source: Middlesex-London Health Unit |
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Saskatchewan work & family balance awards |
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Describes how 14 Saskatchewan workplaces have successfully developed a range of initiatives to assist their employees in balancing work and family responsibilities. Outlines policies and programs that assist each of these workplaces recruit and retain staff and showcases innovative and creative ways these small, medium, and large workplaces – in Yorkton, Prince Albert, Melfort, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Regina, North Battleford and Whitebear First Nation – have implemented practices to support their employees. Award-Winners have indicated they would be pleased to speak with other employers about what they have done to make their workplaces more family-friendly.
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Source: Saskatchewan Work and Family Balance |
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