IRS Plans Employee Child-Care Center in Orange County as Extra Job Benefit
The Internal Revenue Service expects to begin remodeling its Laguna Niguel office next week for an employee child-care center, part of a pilot project in four locations nationwide aimed at reducing employee turnover.
The Ziggurat Child Development Center, tentatively scheduled to open in January, will apparently be the first day-care center in a building operated by the General Services Administration in California, said Dennis Hudson, a consultant for the project. GSA provides office space for most government agencies.
Patricia Nelson, president of the IRS employees’ union local, said the Orange County office has 2,164 employees and 230 unfilled, permanent positions,
“We hope this one extra benefit will help retain employees,” she said. “Children will be close to their parents while they are at work.”
The center will provide day care for 100 children to age 4, including infants. Tuition will range from $45 to $112, depending on the child’s age and parents’ income.
The Laguna Niguel center is the second for the IRS. The first, in Andover, Mass., opened in February and is nearly filled to its 70-student capacity. Others will be in Houston and Hartford, Conn..
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