Posts tagged "changes to paid parental leave"

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.

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.

Continuing imbalance in paid parental leave is only exacerbating economic inequity between men and women, according to new research.

Business groups have called on the Morrison government to shake up paid parental leave policies in the upcoming federal budget.