Best Companies For Hourly Workers
Following in the 25-year tradition of the Working Mother 100 Best Companies, the Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers survey honors companies dedicated to creating and using best practices to support their hourly employees. In partnership with Corporate Voices for Working Families, an organization devoted to improving the lives of working families, Working Mother has developed the Best Companies for Hourly Workers application. This application asks companies to report availability and usage of programs that support hourly workers.
All companies that apply, including those that don't make the list, will receive feedback showing how they compare to all other applicants. Meanwhile, all winning companies will be featured in the May 2011 issue of Working Mother magazine and on workingmother.com. Winning companies are also celebrated at a gala event to be held next May, in Washington D.C.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Your company is eligible to apply to the Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers initiative if it meets the following eligibility requirements
1. Your company must have a minimum of 500 employees in the United States.
2. At least half (50%) of your company’s total U.S. employees must be nonexempt.
3. The following organizations are NOT eligible to apply: Divisions of companies and companies in the business of providing work/life services or consulting (e.g. childcare or flexibility), or consulting and government agencies (taxation and revenue departments, motor vehicle bureaus, military, legislatures, executive branches, judiciaries, prosecutorial offices, etc.).
Public or private companies are invited to apply, including companies, corporations, and autonomous subsidiaries that offer their own benefits program and report to their own CEO. Government Educational institutions, even if state supported, are eligible. Interested in applying but do not meet the 50% nonexempt employees threshold? Your company may be eligible for the Best Companies for Hourly Workers Spotlight Award. Please contact Kristen Willoughby at kristen.willoughby@workingmother.com or 212-219-7491 to learn more.
PROCESS AND DEADLINES
All interested companies are invited to register for the 2011 Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers survey via the link below. We recommend that your company registers as soon as possible (even if you are not sure that you will be able to submit a completed application). Having a registration on file for this survey ensures that you will be promptly informed of all pertinent information, updates, and invites to informational calls that take place before the application goes live. Each company self-selects itself for participation each year, so it is each company’s individual responsibility to ensure they are registered for this survey.
NOTE: Due to the nature and depth of the data we are collecting in this survey, this application is typically registered for and completed by a representative from your company’s HR, Diversity, Work/Life, Corporate Communications, or PR department.
The application will go live in on July 16, 2010. Registered applicants will receive a link to the application via email. Please be sure that only one contact per company registers for this survey. The registered contact will be the single point of contact for all survey-related correspondence.
Completed applications are due on or before October 15, 2010. In early December, all applicant companies, including those that do not make the list, will receive a confidential report showing how it compares against other participating companies. The names of companies that do not make the list are never revealed. In addition, we offer detailed benchmarking to help applicant companies better understand their company’s performance.
The list of 2011 Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers will be announced in the May issue of Working Mother Magazine and on workingmother.com. Winning companies will also be celebrated at the Best Companies for Hourly Workers Luncheon in May 2011.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about the application, eligibility requirements, or anything else pertaining to this initiative, please contact Kristen Willoughby, Manager, Editorial Research & Initiatives, at 212-219-7491 or kristen.willoughby@workingmother.com.
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