NATION IN BRIEF : NORTH CAROLINA : Child Care Urged by Elizabeth Dole
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Companies that do not offer child care and other social benefits will lose workers to companies that do, Labor Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole told a meeting of the Durham, N.C., Day Care Council. “ . . . In the tighter labor markets of today, employers cannot afford to ignore workers’ obligations to their families,” Dole said, noting that about two-thirds of mothers with children under high school age are working in full- or part-time jobs.
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