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20 ILCS 605/605-865

(20 ILCS 605/605-865)

Sec. 605-865. Family-friendly workplace initiative.

The Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity, with the advice of members of the business
community, may establish a family-friendly workplace initiative.  The
Department may develop a program to annually collect information regarding the
State's private eligible employers with 50 or fewer employees and private
eligible employers with 51 or more employees in the State providing the most
family-friendly benefits to their employees.  The same program may be
established for public employers. The criteria for determining eligible
employers includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) consideration of the dependent care scholarship

or discounts given by the employer;

(2) flexible work hours and schedules;

(3) time off for caring for sick or injured

dependents;

(4) the provision of onsite or nearby dependent care;

(5) dependent care referral services; and

(6) in-kind contributions to community dependent care

programs.

Those
employers chosen by the Department may be recognized with annual
"family-friendly workplace" awards and a Statewide information and advertising
campaign publicizing the employers' awards, their contributions to
family-friendly child care, and the methods they used to improve the dependent
care experiences of their employees' families.

(Source: P.A. 93-478, eff. 8-8-03; 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)