For Immediate Release
April 19, 2007

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center’s Federal Legislation Clinic has received a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue and expand the activities of Workplace Flexibility 2010, a major research, outreach and consensus-building initiative to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility.

"Workplace Flexibility 2010 has been the driving force in beginning a national conversation on how flexibility in the workplace can benefit both businesses and families," said Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff. "This new grant will allow that critical conversation to continue."

Since its inception in 2003, Workplace Flexibility 2010 has engaged in thorough, objective research to determine how existing laws and practices – in areas such as labor, employment, anti-discrimination, tax, health and benefits – support or hinder workplace flexibility. It also has brought together key stakeholder organizations including business and management groups, unions and family and community advocates in order to establish alliances that will serve as the foundation for creating a consensus-based, comprehensive national policy on the issue.

"In the last two years, Workplace Flexibility 2010 has succeeded in creating a vision for a new American workplace: a workplace that breaks down the social structures that currently control our time and work and supports efficiency and flexibility simultaneously," said Georgetown Law Professor Chai Feldblum, co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010. "The next phase of this project holds the promise of not only developing real consensus-based policy solutions that will work for both employees and employers, but also of deepening local and national support to make those policy solutions a reality."

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution. The goal of its program area on workplace, workforce and working families is to enhance scholarly, business, and public understanding of the interaction of family and workplace and of how the workplace can be restructured to provide more choice in work hours to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse workforce, particularly working parents and older workers.

 

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