CALL FOR ENTRIES: Best Companies for Hourly Workers

Applications now being accepted for 2011 Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers

NEW YORK, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the second year, Working Mother is pleased to present Best Companies for Hourly Workers, in partnership with Corporate Voices for Working Families. Best Companies for Hourly Workers honors companies dedicated to creating and using best practices to support their non-exempt employees.

Public or private for-profit companies are invited to apply, including companies, corporations, and autonomous subsidiaries that offer their own benefits program and report to their own CEO. Applicants must also have a minimum of 500 employees in the U.S. with at least 50% of those U.S. employees being non-exempt workers.

The online survey is open to applicants from July 16 through October 15, 2010 at wmmsurveys.com. There is no cost to apply.

Winning companies will be featured in the May 2011 issue of Working Mother magazine and on workingmother.com, and will be invited to celebrate their success at an event to be held in the Spring of 2011. Only winning companies will be announced; non-winning companies will remain confidential.

All companies that apply, including those that do not make the Best Companies list, will receive feedback showing how they compare against all applicants.

In April of 2010, the following companies were named to the inaugural list of Best Companies for Hourly Workers:

• CCLC (Childrens' Creative Learning Centers)
• Marriott International
• McDonald's USA
• Sodexo
• University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
• UNM Hospitals

More information about the Best Companies for Hourly Workers program can be found at workingmother.com/bestcompanies.

About Working Mother Media

Celebrating 30 years, Working Mother magazine reaches 2.2 million readers and is the only national magazine for mothers with careers. Working Mother's 25-year signature research initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, is the most important benchmark for work-life practices in corporate America. With offices in New York and Washington, D.C., Working Mother Media, a subsidiary of Bonnier Corp., includes the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), Diversity Best Practices, the WorkLife Congress, and the Multicultural Women's Conference and Town Halls. Working Mother Media's mission is to champion cultural change. For more information please visit www.workingmother.com

About Corporate Voices for Working Families

Corporate Voices for Working Families, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the leading national business membership organization representing the private sector on public and corporate policy issues involving working families. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we improve the lives of working families by developing and advancing innovative policies that reflect collaboration among the private sector, government and other stakeholders.

To create bipartisan support for issues affecting working families, we facilitate research in areas spotlighting the intersecting interests of business, community and families: workforce readiness, family economic stability, flexibility in the workplace, and work and family balance.

Collectively our 50 partner companies, with annual net revenues of more than $1 trillion, employ more than 4 million individuals throughout all 50 states. For more information please visit www.corporatevoices.org

Contact:

Working Mother Media: Nancy Intrator, 212.219.7485

Corporate Voices for Working Families: Nathan Constable, 202.467.8139

SOURCE Corporate Voices for Working Families

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