Family-Friendly Factory Program
What is a Family-Friendly Factory?
A Family-Friendly Factory is one which has considered the distinct needs of its employees with family & carer responsibilities. The Family-Friendly Factory program works to improve factory policies and environments to support working parents.
Factories are empowered to create their own family-friendly policies and provide facilities that promote a positive family-work balance.
Each factory entering the Family-Friendly Factory program undertakes an initial needs assessment from which a bespoke program of policies, facilities and activities will be suggested to address these needs.
Elements of a Family-Friendly Factory may include:
Providing employer-funded childcare through implementing IETP's Family-Friendly Spaces program
Employer-funded training and support for parents, helping them to develop new skills
Workplace policies which offer parents benefits such as flexible working arrangements and enhanced parental leave
Providing employer-funded childcare through implementing IETP's Family-Friendly Spaces program
Employer-funded training and support for parents, helping them to develop new skills
Workplace policies which offer parents benefits such as flexible working arrangements and enhanced parental leave
The Purpose of IETP's Family-Friendly Factory Program:
IETP, along with UNICEF’s Family-Friendly Policies guidance and expert advice, developed the program to optimise family-friendly policies in order to create a working environment that improves the physical and mental wellbeing of workers.
Our research showed a lack of affordable, safe and accessible childcare was the no.1 reason why factory workers were leaving their jobs. We understand the importance of listening to workers and the IETP Family-Friendly Factory (FFF) program helps factories to do this.
The FFF program encourages factories to implement policies that create a working environment that allows parents and caregivers to balance work and personal life and the care of children.
Since 2021, IETP has been piloting the initiative at four IETP-certified factories, with guidance from UNICEF, with the four following aims:
Family-Friendly Factory Brochure
This brochure shows the impacts, outcomes and case studies from four factories, participating in the pilot program since 2021.