Employers’ Flexibility Is Part of Covid Child-Care Solution

Employers can best support working parents during the pandemic by loosening restrictions around paid leave and being as flexible as possible with work hours, benefits professionals say.

With full-time schooling unlikely while the Covid-19 outbreak rages on, employees with kids will likely have to juggle work demands and round-the-clock parenting for the foreseeable future.

Many employees have access to two weeks of paid leave for child care woven into the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), a benefit that will go away at the end of the public health emergency. They also can use assorted time off already offered by ...