The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Yale University is the only college to have been named one of the top 100 family-friendly companies by Working Mother magazine this year. Working Mother lauds Yale's five on-site child care centers and child care benefits, the free health insurance it offers employees who work at least 20 hours per week and earn less than $83,000 annually, and its program for staffers "who buy a home in designated areas of New Haven," which affords them "up to $30,000 in grants from the university during their first 10 years of ownership," among other benefits.
AgBio firm Monsanto offers its employees "the option of applying for a year of job-guaranteed time off after their 12-week birth or adoption leave," after which they can enroll in the company's Return to Work program to "consult with a work-life coach to get help transitioning back," according to the magazine.
Pharmalot notes that pharmaceutical firms Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis also made the Working Mother top 100 this year.