http://www.cvworkingfamilies.org/about-us

Corporate Voices for Working Families: A Unique Voice Bridging Business and Policy to Shape the Competitiveness of the Workplace and Workforce. It is a business membership organization representing the private sector. The following is a sampling of a few of the companies that support Corporate Voices: Allstate Insurance Company, AOL, Ford Motor Company Fund, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Office Depot, Inc. and Verizon Wireless. Founded in 2001, Corporate Voices' goal is to engage the business community in social issues involving working families.

Four key areas are focused on:

Workforce Readiness, Afterschool and Early Childhood Education
Work and Family Balance
Workplace Flexibility
Family Economic Stability

Publications and Toolkits are available for these four topics.

The News and Events section offers up-to-date information on related topics. The latest topic in the Press Release section is dated April 21, 2011.

In the 2008-2009 Report to Partner and Funders, mention is made of First Lady Michelle Obama attending the annual meeting in May and the Corporate Voice's continuing relationship with the Obama administration. Michelle Obama is quoted: "Through [Corporate Voices] work, the private sector, government, and other key stakeholders can have a real dialogue based on facts, find common ground and then develop innovative policies that can help employees manage their work and family obligations".

Corporate Voices appears to be a transparent and credible organization, supported and funded by the business community and endorsed by the Obama administration. [Corporate Voices']

http://www.workplaceflexibility2010.org/

Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown Law, is a powerhouse of up-to-date information relating to all aspects of work and family policy issues. Three main topics are featured together with several corresponding categories:

1) Policy Components: Flexible Work Arrangements, Time Off and Career Flexibility.

2) Laws Impacting Flexibility: Federal Leave Laws, State Leave Laws, Labor Laws, Tax and Benefit Laws, Civil Rights Laws and International Laws.

3) Stakeholders: Families and Caregivers, Military Families, Older Workers, Low-Wage Workers, People with Disabilities, Employers and Labor.

Intended Audience: Employers, Social Workers, Lawmakers, Educational, as well as the above listed Stakeholders.

This website was easy and friendly to navigate. There were no places to sign in, no solicitations for money and no annoying pop ups for advertising. I did not detect any bias or agenda for a particular stakeholder, but rather a collective effort from all parties to work together to come up with reasonable solutions that would benefit all involved.

Workplace Flexibility 2010 is a public policy initiative based at Georgetown Law, and is part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's National Institute on Workplace Flexibility. Both of these institutions are well established and well respected, the former being one of the United States' most prestigious law schools and the latter being a philanthropic non-profit organization.

Of particular interest was the collection of links featuring policies in other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, New Zealand and the UK.

http://workplaceflexibility2010.org/index.php/resources

This chart shows a summary comparison of extended time off in several foreign countries:

http://workplaceflexibility2010.org/images/uploads/EXTOInternationalSummaryChart(1).pdf