Call for Entries for the 2009 Alares National Awards for Work-Life and Personal-Life Balance
The Alares Foundation has announced its 2009 edition of the Alares National Awards, the most prestigious and prominent national recognition in the field of work-life reconciliation.
The objective is, among other things, to recognize the many efforts made to promote, study, disseminate, and implement programs and/or new approaches related to work-life, family, and personal life reconciliation, and their impact on quality of life and business competitiveness.
This new call for applications for the National Awards Alares 2009, like previous editions, is aimed at publicly recognizing the various organizations, companies, and professionals detailed below, in order to reward their initiatives in support of work-life, family, and personal life reconciliation. The award-winning experiences will be shared with society at large to promote best practices in this area. The application period is now open, with applications closing in February 2009 and the decision to be announced in May of the same year.
The jury will consist of distinguished figures of recognized prestige from various fields, as well as members of the Board of Trustees of the Alares® Foundation. The ten categories of the Alares® Awards, described below, aim to recognize the actions, innovations, writings, publications, or professional careers of:
§ Institutions
§ Companies: small, medium-sized, and large
§ Social partners
§ Executives
§ Media professionals
§ Media outlets
§ Information or programs in audiovisual media
§ Innovation and research
§ Universities, business schools, and other educational and research institutions
§ Teachers and researchers The awards ceremony will take place in June 2009 during a grand “work-family reconciliation celebration” attended by politicians, businesspeople, executives, and representatives of society at large. < /s pan>
