For Immediate Release
March 30, 2005

Contact:
Greg Langlois, (202) 662-9500 or Patti Giglio (202) 903-7869

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center's Federal Legislation Clinic has received a $2.3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand Workplace Flexibility 2010, a major research initiative to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility. The vision of the initiative is an American workplace where viable flexibility options, benefiting employers and employees alike, are the standard.

"Workplace Flexibility 2010 will provide important discussion, research and policy work for one of the most crucial issues of the day," said Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff. "This generous grant enables the program’s important work to continue."

Workplace Flexibility 2010 provides objective and reasoned analyses of existing laws and practices – in areas such as labor, employment, anti-discrimination, tax, health and benefits - that explain how the existence or absence of laws and practices hinder or support workplace flexibility. It also actively engages leaders from business, community groups, unions, family groups and other potential stakeholders to define the contours of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility and to form new alliances.

"Workplace Flexibility 2010 is a project about a change in imagination: imagining radically different career paths and workplaces that will better meet the needs of both employees and employers," said Professor Chai Feldblum, Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010. "It is a change in imagination that understands we have an obligation to use law and policy to create social frameworks that expand our options around time and work and not simply accept existing social structures. Our job is to find the common ground among diverse stakeholders."

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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