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Honoring Family-Friendly Workplaces Act
To direct the Secretary of Labor to recognize employers with a commitment to helping employees balance workplace responsibilities and family obligations.
Summary
This bill would direct the Secretary of Labor to establish a national certification program to recognize employers as "family-friendly" based on their workplace policies and benefits. To qualify for certification, employers would be required to offer at least 12 weeks of paid family leave per year for various reasons including childbirth, adoption, serious health conditions, and military caregiving. Employers would also need to provide paid sick days separate from paid time off, child care assistance or on-site infant care options, flexible work schedules for parents, remote work options when feasible, fertility and adoption service assistance, and lactation support. Employers would submit applications demonstrating they meet all of these requirements, and the Secretary would award certifications to those that qualify. The bill authorizes the Labor Department to appropriate necessary funding for the program.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6] (D-NY)
3 cosponsors
Actions (2)
- Dec 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Dec 18, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 18, 2025
Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Velazquez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Labor to recognize employers with a commitment to helping employees balance workplace responsibilities and family obligations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Honoring Family-Friendly Workplaces Act”.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Employee; employer.—The terms “employee” and “employer” have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203).
(2) Secretary.—The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Labor.
SEC. 3. CERTIFICATION PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
(a) In General.—The Secretary shall establish a national certification program to award certifications to recognize employers that have a commitment to helping employees balance employment responsibilities and family obligations (referred to in this section as “family-friendly certifications”).
(b) Criteria for Certification.—In order to be eligible to receive a family-friendly certification, an employer must carry out each of the following family-friendly employment policies and benefits:
(1) Assistance paying for, or referring employees to, fertility or adoption services.
(2) Paid family leave of not less than 12 weeks per year, including the option to use leave for any of the following reasons:
(A) The birth of a child of the employee and in order to care for such child.
(B) The placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care.
(C) To address the employee’s own serious health condition, including pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy loss.
(D) To address the serious health condition (as defined in section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2611)) of a family member.
(E) For specific military caregiving and leave.
(3) Paid sick days for employees that are separate from time accrued as part of a paid time off policy.
(4) A subsidy for child care or policies that allow parents to work alongside their infants in safe settings.
(5) Policies that allow for flexible hours once a parent returns to work after a birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
(6) If feasible, policies that allow employees to work remotely as needed for reasons related to the care of a child.
(7) Lactation support, such as reimbursement of expressed breastmilk delivery while on travel, access to pumps, kits, and other lactation supplies and amenities, and access to lactation consultants and support.
(c) Application.—An employer who desires to receive a family- friendly certification from the Secretary under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, containing such information, and in such manner as the Secretary may require.
(d) Award of Certification.—The Secretary shall review applications submitted under subparagraph (c) and award a family- friendly certification to an employer whose application demonstrates that the employer has met the requirements established under subsection
(b) regarding family-friendly policies and benefits.
(e) Authorization of Appropriations.—There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act such sums as may be necessary. <all>
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