Jaguar Land Rover named top employer for working families

MANILA, Philippines - Jaguar Land Rover was recently named a “Top Employer” by the UK’s leading work-life balance organization, Working Families.

As part of the Working Families 30th-anniversary celebration and coinciding with the UK National Family Week, a list of the best-of-the-best employers over the past 30 years was drawn up following judging by an eminent panel. The charity supports and gives a voice to working parents and carers while helping employers create workplaces that encourage work-life balance.

Jaguar Land Rover was chosen because of its wide range of established policies to support working parents. These include flexible working hours; class-leading maternity and adoption leave provision; nurseries at two of its sites; breastfeeding facilities; a childcare voucher system; career breaks; emergency care scheme for dependents; and Diversity and Inclusion Awards. The Diversity and Inclusion Awards is an annual event that recognizes the efforts of individuals and teams who have made outstanding contributions to the company goal of creating a diverse and inclusive environment.

“There is an increase in the number of women joining the workforce, women continuing to work after maternity leave, and men wishing to take active roles in family life. To maintain our position as an employer of choice, we need to ensure we have policies which reflect the changing world of work,” said Suzanne Bailey, Jaguar Land Rover employee engagement and diversity manager.

Jaguar Land Rover work-life policies are well-recognized and regularly benchmarked by other organizations seeking to introduce similar policies. In 2005, Jaguar Land Rover was the winner of the Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Working Families’ Employer of the Year award. The award was based on the company’s excellent understanding and communication of the business case for diversity in the challenging world of automotive engineering.