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.

Source: City of Ottawa

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.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

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.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Reviews different types of work-life balance initiatives developed by countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden and the United States. Includes recent survey data and references.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Offers news stories, annoucements, and interest stories on the work of the Centre and work-family issues.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Le RCS est un service d'information-santé bilingue et pancanadien. Offert par l'entremise d'Internet, il vise essentiellement à aider les Canadiennes et Canadiens à trouver l'information dont ils ont besoin pour rester en santé et prévenir la maladie. Comprend de l'information détaillée concernant 27 principaux groupes et sujets de santé.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

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.

Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour

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.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Offers information, resources and tools to help organizations design and implement supportive programs and policies facilitating work-life balance. Includes case studies, programs, policies, evaluation tools, and best practices.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

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.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Reviews practices of work-related child-care centres in Canada. Discusses major issues, advantages and disadvantages, and how organizations can be involved in developing and operating work-related child-care centres. Includes detailed profiles of 14 Canadian centres.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)