Resources for employers
Upcoming Webinar: Striking the Balance Between Career & Family | An International Women’s Day event
This International Women’s Day Parents At Work is hosting an exclusive international webinar about how employers can support their female employees to strike a balance between career and family in order to improve the health of their people as well as gender equality within their workplace. This will be in line with the UN Women’s theme…
Read MoreSupporting Employees Through Perinatal Anxiety and Depression
Depression and anxiety during pregnancy and the first year of parenting (the perinatal period) affects around 20% of mothers and 10% of fathers. That is almost 100,000 parents in Australia each year. Many of these parents continue their everyday life, including their employment, with those around them unaware of their suffering. This year, the Perinatal Anxiety…
Read MoreDo family friendly workplace policies really deliver a return on investment?
We’ve long heard from HR and business performance experts that when an organisation invests in their people, the business benefits. Ask any business that has been recognised as an ‘employer of choice’ and the likely response is ‘give people a great place to work and they will want to stay employed with us’. Is this…
Read MoreAnnouncing 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 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 MoreCounting the Cost of Work-Family Conflict in Workplaces: Review of the National Working Families Report Launch
“It’s obvious that we are not shifting fast enough on tackling work-family conflict and it’s costing our Nation greatly. It comes at a cost to women’s wellbeing, their career progression and pay equity. It comes at a cost to men’s wellbeing, who continue to feel the burden of being the primary breadwinner and are often…
Read MoreImplementing Progressive Parental Leave Policies – An Interview with Diageo
Diageo have recently placed themselves as firm leaders in the parental leave equality realm, with an updated parental leave policy that offers 26 weeks of paid leave to all new parents. This encompasses anyone that has a new baby, including adoptive or surrogate. Impressively, it is also open to any employee, regardless of their time…
Read MoreProof SMEs can do Parental Leave: an interview with Nikki Beaumont
Many small-to-medium businesses believe that a best practice parental leave scheme is beyond their reach. It’s not financially viable, they can’t afford the employee absence, flexibility may hurt the bottom line – these are a few of the misconceptions holding businesses back from gender-equal, family-friendly policies. But best practice paid parental leave is possible, no…
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