Tea gathering on Developing Employee Assistance Programs and a Family Friendly Workplace with Social Service Partnerships

Family Friendly has become a hot issue for executives who would like to enhance employees’ commitment, productivity and morale. On 5 July 2006, we organized a tea gathering to let Caring Companies know more about what u0022Family Friendlyu0022 and Employee Assistance Program are (EAP).

There were nearly 200 participants attended the event, including senior executives, personnel from Human Resources, Administration and Training Department. Ten booths with EAP service from social service organizations were there to let the participants to know more about the related services.

Ms Christine Fang, Chief Executive of HKCSS started with a welcome remarks and highlighted the importance of family and work life balance; Ms Jane Tsuei, Business Director (Service Development) briefly introduced how the EAP service provided by social service organizations could help employers develop family friendly practices in workplace.

Besides, four partnership cases regarding family friendly practices adoption in workplace were shared by EAP providers and companies.

Guest speakers and topics that were shared:

Ms Clara Law, Business Administrator of Abbott Laboratories Ltd
Mr Au Kwok Chung, Alex, Project Manager of Hong Kong Employment Development Service
Topic: The running of work-life balance training series, lunch hours talk and parent-child courses for employees

Ms Doris S.C. Mao, Manager of Supervisory u0026amp; Professional Training of MTR Corporation
Mr Suen Lap-man, Management Consultant of Employee Service Programme of Christian Family Service Centre
Topic: The establishment of hotline emotional support service and training programmes, and the formation of a booklet on Work and life balance

Ms Debbie Chong, Human Resources Manager of Pfizer Corporation Hong Kong Ltd
Ms Sania Yau, Service Coordinator of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Topic: The arrangement of mental health workshop and training series for employees

Mr Lai Wai Lun, Supervisor of Caritas Personal Growth Centre for Men
Topic: The forming of father’s sharing group in business setting and games design in Office Open Day for employees’ family members

Booths with EAP service from social service organizations

Since there were nearly 200 participants attended the event, some of them needed to view the live-broadcasting.

Ms Christine Fang, Chief Executive of HKCSS

Ms Jane Tsuei, Business Director (Service Development) of HKCSS