Posts tagged "parental leave"

Australian-grown tech startup 99designs has significantly expanded its parental leave policies, doing away with internal distinctions between 'primary' and 'secondary' care givers.  

COVID-19 lockdowns have forced many working parents to conduct their paid work – usually done in the workplace – at home with their kids.

Business size should not be used as an excuse for failing to provide a great workplace culture and inclusive policies to support staff, according to Cube Group founder Ben Schramm.

A new UNICEF report has seen Australia ranked 37 of the 41 richest countries on access to childcare, 34 on the affordability of childcare, and 37 on access to parental leave.

Aussie startups Circle In and CareforKids.com.au have partnered up, as more businesses bolster their policies supporting working parents.

In late 2019, ING became the first bank in Australia to give both parents equal access to 14 weeks paid leave, eliminating “primary” and “secondary” labels in the process.

The government sends a message of presumed gender roles to thousands of Australian women every year via its paid parental scheme.

Furniture and homewares retailer Brosa has rolled out a new paid parental leave policy for both primary and secondary caregivers.

LinkedIn users will soon be able to select from a number of new job titles when updating their profile to better describe periods when they’ve taken time out from work. 

Woolworths and AstraZenica have been named among 17 organisations leading the way for workplace gender equality in Australia. 

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has long been an advocate for better paid parental leave policy in the US.

The federal government plans to give parents of stillborn babies access to the same unpaid parental leave entitlements as other families.