Best companies for hourly workers

Do you ever wonder which companies treat their hourly workers best? Working Mother magazine has the answer--the publication has put together their second annual Best Companies for Hourly Workers list, and some of the answers may surprise you. (See the full list here)

“For a company to be considered, they have to have 500 employees in the U.S. and 50 percent of those employees have to be hourly,� says Jennifer Owens, director of the magazine’s Working Mother Research Institute. Those on the list provide family-friendly benefits that promote health and wellness, education, flexibility and work-life balance. Here they are in alphabetical order.

--Jenniffer Weigel, Tribune Newspapers