If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.
The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.
You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
No opposing quotes found.