Thursday, March 15, 2012

Work-and-family plan sends staffers important message

When Rachel Rosenberg returned to work after the birth of herson, Ari, five years ago, she went to a part-time, three-day-a-weekschedule.

Although agreeing to the flexible work schedule was aprogressive step for her employer, Continental Bank, there was onelittle thing that bothered her: she had to fill out a time sheet,something required of administrative staffers, not full-timeprofessionals.

"I was still treated professionally, but that was a subtlemessage that said, `You're not a professional if you only work parttime,' " Rosenberg said.

No longer. With a new work-and-family benefit program that goesinto effect at the first of the year, Rosenberg's …

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