How employers’ organizations and companies deal with work/family/personal life arrangement

Abstract

This article analyzes the most innovative Spanish employer initiatives on work/family/personal life arrangement. The research is based on a previous contextualization of Spanish employer to focus specially on confederal employers’ organizations and chemical, food and retail significant employers’ organizations deal with legislation and collective bargaining, as well as on the initiatives of three big companies. According to these data, the Spanish employer is scarcely innovative, markedly conditioned by legal requirements and closely related to limited versions of family-friendly model in its most significant initiatives.