Ruppersberger to Receive Award from Working Mother Magazine

Ruppersberger to Receive Top Honor for Promoting Family-Friendly Policies

(Washington, DC) – Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) will receive the “Best of Congress” award from Working Mother magazine for promoting family-friendly policies in Congress as well as in his Washington, DC, and Timonium, Maryland, offices.

In the House of Representatives, Congressman Ruppersberger supports legislation that helps employees manage a good work-life balance.  The Congressman authored H.R. 460, the “Right Start Child Care and Education Act”, to help ease the financial burden on Maryland families while helping ensure quality, affordable child care is available.  Congressman Ruppersberger has also hosted several job fairs to connect job-seekers with hiring companies to help give families financial stability.  In addition, the Congressman has hosted forums on college financial aid, Internet safety, and home foreclosure prevention.   

The Congressman implements flexible work policies in his Congressional offices.  Employees receive three months of paid maternity leave and three weeks of paid paternity leave.  Congressman Ruppersberger also provides new mothers with the option of working a compressed work week, a part-time schedule, or telecommuting from home.  All employees are given a Blackberry that makes telecommuting or working outside the office more manageable.  

What:        Ruppersberger to Receive the “Best of Congress” Award from Working Mother Magazine 

When:        8:00 am, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 

Who:         Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger   
                 Representatives from Working Mother Magazine
   
Where:      Charlie Palmer’s Steak House
                 101 Constitution Avenue, NW
                 Washington, DC