Australia’s Children’s Commissioner wants the federal government to show leadership in elevating child wellbeing as a policy priority.
Structural changes to childcare and parental leave policies,rather than more education,are needed to help more women into the workforce,economic modelling finds.
It’s a strange feeling to have left work for such a life-altering event – having a baby – without actually walking out a door. And then,just like that,like a time warp,our table became a desk again.
Australia has one of the least generous parental leave schemes in the world,but Spotify’s head of HR is “calling bullshit” after introducing a suite of radical new policies.
ARA chief executive Paul Zahra says the most effective way to close the gap in super balances is to remove barriers to women wanting to get back to work.
If you have a child and want to make use of parental leave arrangements you are not guaranteed to be paid super.
Many Australian couples have fallen back on traditional roles during this pandemic about how best to divide paid and unpaid work.
Stay-at-home dad Hussain Ali advises other fathers to consider following in his footsteps and “be mindful of making the decision you are least likely to regret”.
Archewell’s parental leave policy allows staff 20 weeks of paid leave – a stark contrast to what the pair took while working royals which was just a few weeks.
In the past few weeks,Emma Sweeney has put up 60 posters in the inner west,but she says she is “just getting started”.
Mums and dads taking time off work to look after their babies will be promised more generous paid parental leave under a Labor government,putting pressure on the Coalition to expand the scheme ahead of the election.