HUNTSVILLE — Legislation that helps businesses provide child care service to employees is increasing the state’s workforce participation, according to its sponsor, Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels.
The Huntsville lawmaker sponsored the Alabama’s Child Care Tax Credit that became law Jan. 1. The legislation creates tax credits for employers providing on-site child care or stipends for child care expenses, in addition to credits for child care facilities and donors contributing to nonprofit child care providers.
“The Child Care Tax Credit has provided opportunities for industry to develop and build their own facility on site for their employees,” Daniels (D-Huntsville) said last week at the Alabama Legislative Update in Huntsville. “We’ve been focusing a lot of our attention on increasing the workforce participation rate…