Posts tagged with PPL
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ALP Announces 2 weeks Paid Parental Leave for Partners
Prime Minister Gillard has announced today that a re-elected Labor Government will, for the first time, provide two weeks Paid Paternity Leave for fathers of newborn babies.
This will be ...
Media Release
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Published: 18 Aug, 2010
Tags: paid parental leave, women, policy, watch, workforce, parental, wac
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Paid Parental Leave: Is this long awaited baby a healthy bundle?
Finally, after a difficult and prolonged labour in Parliament, Australia’s first national Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was delivered on 17 June 2010. We ask – is it ‘hale and ...
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Rudd’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme: Is it supporting working families?
After an intense lobbying campaign by unions, community groups and women, the Federal Government announced in the 2009 Budget the introduction of Australia’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme: ...
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NTEU's Parental Leave claim
NTEU's Paid Parental Leave scheme for enterprise bargaining in 2009-2010.
That the Agreement provide for:
- If the Government’s Australian Paid Parental Leave Scheme requires absorption of ...
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Productivity Commission Inquiry: Towards paid leave for parents
Despite the mountainous volumes of research and evidence demonstrating the economic and social benefits of paid parental leave, Australia remains one of the few countries that, absurdly, does not ...
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From little things, big things grow: A history of NTEU and paid parental leave
Since 1955, International Labour Organisation (ILO) convention 183 provided for 12 weeks paid maternity leave. In 2000 this was extended to 14 weeks. But in Australia it was not until 1973 that paid ...
