2008 Summit Award Nomination

The Wyoming Council for Women's Issues (WCWI) is accepting nominations for the Wyoming Summit Award. This award recognizes businesses that have successfully instituted family friendly workplace practices that:

• Broaden the workforce - programs and policies should enable the business to progress toward an equitable and diverse workforce from under represented populations.
• Strengthen the workforce - programs and policies should promote wages that compare to regional or national averages for similar jobs and the wage disparity between men's and women's wages should be reduced.
• Support the workforce - programs and policies should demonstrate efforts to satisfy employees (single individuals or otherwise) and their families needs for flexible schedules, day care for children or elders, and any other service that would minimize the stresses of balancing the demands of work and family obligations and increase employees' productivity.

Family friendly workplace practices strive to improve the quality of life by helping employees balance their indisputably linked work and family lives.

• A model family friendly workplace can only be achieved by acknowledging the diverse, talented, and productive workforce, and by creating a work environment that recognizes the importance of employer involvement in maintaining strong, healthy families.
• Family friendly workplaces will help alleviate some of the negative trends associated with the Wyoming Family Photo including the gender wage gap, workers holding multiple jobs, the wage gap between state and national wages, and low rates of health insurance coverage.
• Family friendly workplaces create a win-win situation for everyone involved. Businesses enjoy fewer lost days of work by their employees, greater productivity, and lower turnover, which results in fewer dollars spent training new employees. Employees win by being able to meet family commitments and their job obligations rather than feeling torn between the two.

Nominations will close July 31, 2008.
The person(s) submitting the nomination will receive acknowledgement from the WCWI of receipt of their nomination package by e-mail.