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;

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 20 ILCS 605/605-865

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14

        (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.
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