Amazon moms’ are every working mom, calling for backup day-care benefits

A group of working mothers at Amazon that calls itself the “Momazonians” is pressing the retail giant to provide a backup child-care benefit, according to a Bloomberg report — asking for a perk that’s not only common among their tech peers but increasingly offered to employees including Starbucks baristas and Best Buy retail workers.

Even as backup child care is more commonly offered — giving workers access to subsidized care for those times when a nanny or child is sick, schools are closed or an emergency arises — it’s still rare, with surveys of large employers showing that 9 percent of companies offer it. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

By Jena McGregor