Posts tagged "australia’s paid parental leave policy"

Eligible parents with a baby born or adopted on, or after, 1 July 2025 will receive 12% of the parental leave payment as a superannuation equivalent payment to their super fund.

The best way to close the gender pay gap is by getting men to take parental leave, so that having a child doesn’t unfairly and solely disrupt the mother’s career.

Data shows 2023 has been a game-changing year for paid parental leave in Australia. But it also provides some hints about how stigma and entrenched workplace cultures might be holding men back from taking leave.

Breastfeeding is different from other care work: it can’t be redistributed, and shouldn’t be reduced, and it needs to be counted as such.

Increasing the rate of paid parental leave so it is tied to prior earnings could lead to better and fairer outcomes for Australian families.

Former CEO of COSBOA Peter Strong explains why, in his opinion, the paid parental leave payment process, is unnecessarily complicated.

Only 12% of those taking employer-paid ‘primary’ carer’s leave are men, according to the latest data for 2022 from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

The parental leave policy removes the “primary” and “secondary” labels that can too often be applied to parents from employers and governments.

Advocates for parents and families appeared before a Senate Committee Inquiry on Monday, urging the government to lift its ambition on paid parental leave and look at extending it to 52 weeks by 2030.