Employer Resources

As an employer, you realize that it is important to your employees that they have a safe, secure place to leave their children while they are at work. Employees who have high quality child care are more productive, miss less work, and are available to work more hours for their employer. However, child care is expensive. You can help your employees obtain and maintain high quality child care services by offering a range of benefits:

·         Flex time- full time work with more hours per day, but fewer days per week, flexible scheduling, telecommuting, job sharing, part time work

·         Leave Policies - extended parental leave, use of sick leave for family illness, personal leave

·         Dependent Care Spending Assistance Plan - money set aside from your gross wages into a nontaxable spending plan. Neither your employer nor you pay taxes on the amount of the set aside - allowing you to pay for child care expenses with tax-free dollars

·         Flexible Benefits Plan - you can offer a range of benefits, from health care premiums to child care costs as tax free set asides

·         Child Care Vouchers - you can offer an allowance or stipend to help cover child care cost

·         Child Care Vendor Plan - you can contract with a local child care program to reserve slots for your employees. You might also pay for all or a portion of the cost.

If you are an employer interested in offering these services to your employees - contact Connect Child Care Resource & Referral - we can assist you in setting up employee child care assistance programs!

(304) 595-6401 or 1-888-595-8290