In this day and age, many families need the income of both parents just to survive. Having both parents working, and trying to juggle the day-to-day needs of a family can be quite overwhelming, especially if your employer is not flexible when it comes to taking time off for your family. Luckily for Louisville, Kentucky, residents, there are several family friendly employers in the area. Here’s a look at some of the top family friendly employers in the area.
Baptist Hospital East
Baptist Hospital East has a lot to offer the families of their employees. To start with they offer an on-site child care center for their employees. The childcare center is open daily from 5:30 AM to 7 PM. In addition to the child care center the hospital also offers sick child care for their employees when space is available. While mom or dad goes to work the sick child can spend the day under the care of the nurses in the pediatric wing.
Employees can enjoy discounts on home and auto insurance to their employees as well as receive a discount on the purchase of their HP or Compaq computer supplies through Hpshopping.com. Employees who are looking to purchase a home can complete an eight week series class to help them learn about buying a home, and can also receive assistance with their closing costs as well as possibly qualify for up to $2,000 for a down payment on their new home. Employees can also take advantage of the Employee Emergency Assistance Plan that can help employees cover emergency expenses such as the payment of a utility bill, and at Christmas time they help to purchase toys and other presents for families of employees who need assistance.
The hospital also offers on-site dry cleaning drop-off services and a full service bank with ATM machine so that employees don’t have to spend their lunch break running around taking care of errands.
Employees at Baptist Hospital East also enjoy several days off per year. At the end of their first year of employment employees can accrue ten sick days, and in addition they receive nineteen paid days off per year. After five years of employment the paid days off can increase to twenty-four paid days off per year, and after eleven years of employment it increases to up to twenty-nine paid days off per year.
Talbot’s and J.Jill
In addition to the discount on purchases employees of the retail stores Talbots and J.Jill, which are both owned by the same company, can enjoy adoption assistance, and tuition assistance. Employees who are looking to adopt can receive up to $3,000 towards their adoption costs. Also the company offers up to $3,000 per year in tuition assistance for employees and their children.
With two Ford Motor Company plants in Louisville Ford is a major employer in the Louisville area. They offer their employees the opportunity to buy Ford vehicles at discounted prices, as well as offering shifts designed to accommodate families. They have worked with child care centers in the area to give employees discounted child care and also offer Family Service and Learning Centers where children and families can take courses on a variety of topics.
YUM! Brands is another major employer in the Louisville area that offers a wide variety of family friendly benefits as well. Among the benefits they offer employees are a dependent care flexible spending account which allows employees to pay for child care expenses before taxes are taken out of their check, an adoption assistance program, employee stock options, a group legal plan, and an employee assistance program. They also have a tuition reimbursement program for employees, college-planning assistance that is available to employees and their children which gives them access to special pricing on Student Loans. They also offer several discount programs to their employees that include discounted vehicle purchases as well as discounted child care services.
Employees of the Marriott company receive not only discounted hotel and travel services, which is a great benefit to traveling families, but they also receive the opportunity to switch their holidays to different days. For example they can trade Independence Day for a child’s birthday or an anniversary. They also have arranged for their employees to receive up to a ten percent discount at nearby child care facilities.
