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White House Continues National Conversation on Workplace Flexibility

Today, Vice President Biden and the White House Middle Class Task Force hosted an event focused on protecting American families’ economic security by closing the gender wage gap – and ensuring working Americans have access to the flexibility they need to meet the demands of work while also fulfilling serious personal and caregiving responsibilities.

At the event, Valerie Jarrett announced the release of the White House’s Work-Flex Event Starter Kit, a resource designed to help businesses, local elected officials, community organizations and others organize events on workplace flexibility in communities across the country.  

These events will continue and expand on the groundbreaking dialogue that came out of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility.

View the White House Work-Flex Event Starter Kit.


Read “The Conversation Continues: Equal Pay and Workplace Flexibility” by Valerie Jarrett, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls and Senior Advisor to the President.

Read WF2010’s Statement on Ongoing White House Efforts to Advance Workplace Flexibility – and the Work-Flex Event Starter Kit.
 

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