Can Australia accelerate the take up of men sharing parental leave?
From July 2023 new parents will have more flexibility in how they apply for and share parental leave, as well as access to the new childcare reform package. For a child born or adopted from July 1 2023, the Commonwealth-funded Paid Parental Leave is up to 20 weeks (or 100 payable days). The payment is flexible, meaning […]
‘Work That Fits Your Life’ – Hewlett Packard Enterprise leads with 26-week parental leave scheme
4 day work weeks and stronger leave policies: The top workplace trends we’ll see in 2023
In many respects the illusive future of work has arrived – the monumental shifts in how and where we work that have occurred over the past three years are vast and have tested the boundaries of the employee-employer relationship at work and at home like never before. Flexible work took on a whole new dimension […]
Time for employers to do a “health check” on paid parental leave
The Albanese Government has made it clear in revamping the Commonwealth paid parental leave scheme that employers also have a role to play. On announcing his push for the current scheme to be incrementally extended to 26 weeks by the year 2026, with tweaks to further promote shared care and encourage more dads to take […]
Triple paid parental leave and give Dads the financial incentive to actually use it
The call from unions to significantly increase paid parental leave is the kind of big, bold action Australia needs for creating a more family friendly economy that truly values care. This week the Australian Council of Trade Unions released a policy paper calling for paid parental leave to be increased to 52 weeks by the […]
Government Announces New Shared Parental Leave Scheme almost 12 Years after PPL was first introduced
Mums and dads can now access up to 20 weeks to share the care Since the introduction of PPL in 2010, there’s been relatively no movement to the scheme’s cornerstone design (18 weeks for primary carers (women) and later, 2 weeks for secondary carers (dads) whilst internationally PPL standards across other OECD nations have continued […]
One Dads 14 Week Paid Parental Leave Experience
How do other families do it? Parental leave that is. One may assume there’s only one way to do it and that is to just take what you can get – be that from the Government or an employer. But in fact there are so many ways you can take parental leave these days. So, […]
Impressive 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 […]
More acceptable for women than men to use family friendly work options?
International Women’s Day 2020: It’s time for Parental Leave Equality This International Women’s Day, as we celebrate ‘Each For Equal’, Parents At Work is calling for vital reform of Australia’s gendered approach to paid parental leave to ensure all parents have an equal opportunity to share the care. Australia does not currently have a shared-care […]
Gender-Equal Parental Leave in Action – A Professional Couple’s Perspective
It’s not often you get to hear from a professional couple who have both taken parental leave. In this special podcast we interview Michael Brosnan, Manager at Deloitte, and Annaliese Van Riet, People and Culture Leader, about their experience of becoming new parents and how Deloitte’s parental policies have made achieving a balance between work […]
