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Announcing our New Employer Membership
For over a decade, Parents At work has been proudly working in partnership with employers, policy makers and families to improve work-life balance and gender equality outcomes. Our aim is to support people to thrive at work and at home and we’ve recently introduced an employer membership service to make it easier for organisations to create a…
Read MoreCould the concept of ‘going to work’ as we know it be changed forever?
Many firms are planning how they’re going to get staff who have been working from home, back to the office. Not all will want to return. Could the concept of ‘going to work’ as we know it be changed forever? The last two months of isolation for many workers has meant imposed working from…
Read MoreShare your COVID-19 Experience: National survey to capture Australia’s home truths and shape policy
CALLING ALL AUSTRALIANS: SHARE YOUR COVID-19 EXPERIENCE National survey to capture Australia’s home truths and shape policy A new survey from the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) is calling on every Australian to share the experience of COVID-19 for them and their family as we look forward towards recovery. The Families in Australia: Life…
Read MorePressure Points for Working Parents during COVID-19 (and tips on how to address them)
I had been dreaming about enjoying the view in that cover image for over a year – we planned to go there these April school holidays but of course had to cancel and instead rapidly adapt to a new world of work and care. I’m not alone – people are feeling a sense of loss…
Read MoreSaving Childcare: Employers Must Be Part of the Solution
“As a nation we must do everything to avert a disastrous child care industry collapse. That can’t happen unless we radically rethink some of the highly complex structures of child care subsidies and legislation at a state and federal level” Emma Walsh, CEO Parents At Work. Impending disaster facing child care industry Imagine having access…
Read MoreUNICEF Release Employer Guide to Support Families During COVID-19
With the COVID-19 pandemic having an enormous impact around the globe, many businesses are struggling to stay afloat and many employees are being left with reduced hours or unemployment. Now more than ever, it’s important that employers are supporting their workforce as best they can. UNICEF’s new guide for employers – ‘Family Friendly Policies and…
Read MoreWATCH: The Future of Work + Family Webinar for Employers Managing in a COVID-19 World
WATCH NOW “We know in terms of looking at the long-term impact – from other epidemics like Ebola in Africa, SARS and Swine Flu – what was found in Africa, for example, is that the men’s income return to their pre-outbreak was at a faster rate than the women’s so we do need to…
Read More7 Ways to Support Employees with a ‘Work from Home Plan’ in a Coronavirus World
With the World Health Organisation declaring the coronavirus crisis as a ‘global pandemic’, it goes without saying the coming months will be challenging for both employers and employees alike as we all grapple with emergency response plans to change the way we work and set up triage work from home plans. That’s not to say…
Read MoreEmployer Roundtable Webinar Event – An Invitation
The future of work and family – creating family friendly workplaces On behalf of APLEN (Advancing Parental Leave Equality Network), Parents At Work and KPMG, we invite you to join us for this webinar as we share highlights of the National Working Families Report and discuss implications for the future of work and family, especially…
Read MoreImpressive 300% Increase in Men Taking Parental Leave with QBE’s New Gender-Equal Policy
In March 2019, QBE launched their paid parental leave initiative ‘Share the Care’. This new policy eliminated the gendered terms of “primary” and “secondary” carer, and instead offered its existing 12-weeks paid parental leave to every new parent – acknowledging the important roles all parents play within a working family. In the new policy employees…
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