Performance Goal WB 3.2: Technical Assistance, Partnership Development, and Effective Practices
Promote workplace flexibility through technical assistance, partnership development, and encouraging the use of effective
practices.
Stakeholder(s):
- Women’s Bureau (WB): The WB: develops policies and standards and conducts inquiries to safeguard the interests of working women; advocates for
working women’s and their families’ equality and economic security; and promotes high-quality work environments. Among these
responsibilities is the promotion of work-family balance. Workplace flexibility solutions – such as flexible work arrangements,
family-friendly leave policies, and telework – allow employees to navigate their work, family, and personal responsibilities
while also helping employers to meet their recruitment/retention needs and community efforts to ease traffic congestion and
reduce their carbon footprints. The WB is expanding research, outreach, and educational efforts to state/local governments,
educational institutions, and employers to promote work-life benefits as a way to achieve better work and life balance, environmental
goals (e.g., improved air quality), and meet economic challenges. The WB will work with the Bureau of Labor Statistics to
collect data on workers’ access to paid and unpaid leave, the use of leave, and the flexibility of work schedules. WB will
work with other DOL and federal agencies, employers, women’s organizations, and other stakeholders to use data and expand
flexible workplace practices, and to promote laws and policies to help workers achieve work-life balance.
- Office of Disability: In the years to come, the Office of Disability Employment Policy will continue promoting workplace flexibility as a tool to
help workers with disabilities and their employers assess how workers with disabilities can best balance their personal and
family care responsibilities with their work obligations by promoting the adoption and implementation of ODEP-identified disability
employment-related policies and practices. Specifically, ODEP will build upon lessons learned from successful initiatives
such as Customized Employment, youth transition, telework, and the services of the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) and the
Employer Assistance and Resource Network (EARN) to encourage employers to hire, retain, and promote workers with disabilities
through workplace flexibility. DOL will monitor its progress through the following performance measures.
Indicator(s):
|
