Posts Tagged ‘parental leave equality’
Employer 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 MoreParental leave on the rise in family-friendly companies but inequality at home remains, finds new US study
Parental leave is highly valued, with the majority of both women and men taking the full amount offered to them, but women are still taking on the majority of the caring load at home, a new study on the US’s top family-friendly companies has found. Boston College Centre for Work & Family’s ‘Expanded Parental Leave:…
Read More“Do we think dads are just for weekends?”: Annabel Crabb says dads need same support as mums
‘Why do we fret so extensively about the impact on children of not seeing their mothers enough, but care so little about what happens when it’s dad who’s always away?’ Annabel Crabb Annabel Crabb is one of Australia’s most popular political commentators, and her new quarterly essay titled ‘Men At Work – Australia’s Parenting Trap’…
Read MoreBusiness Leaders Event Launching Kiwi Dads Exhibition for Parental Leave Equality in Auckland Today
Today, Parents At Work officially launched the Kiwi Dads Photograph Exhibition in partnership with Global Women and The Embassy of Sweden. It was another inspiring and thought-provoking event with a range of representatives from all aspects of our community including government and our corporate business community. Exhibited alongside the original and award winning Swedish Dads…
Read MoreQBE makes history as first NZ company with gender-equal, flexible paid parental leave
QBE has placed itself at the forefront of family friend organisations with its new parental leave policy. The company has become the first organisation in New Zealand to adopt a gender-equal, flexible paid parental leave policy, in line with its endeavour to create an inclusive workplace. The new policy, called ‘Share the Care’, removes the…
Read MoreRedefining flexibility: Deloitte announces new parental leave changes
Deloitte has reaffirmed themselves as frontrunners in parental leave with new flexible options to their already leading parental leave scheme. Deloitte already offers 18 weeks paid leave to all new parents, regardless of gender. From 2017, Deloitte gave their employees the opportunity to take paid parental leave flexibly. For example, an employee could work three…
Read MoreQBE’s new parental leave initiative makes workplace family-friendly for all parents
“We’re all just parents at the end of the day, and we all get to share that care”. “The child’s needs don’t stop after the first 12 months”. “It allows us the availability for [my partner] to make her own choices.” QBE have announced major changes to their paid parental leave, and their employees…
Read MoreAchieving Parental Leave Equality Roundtable – Melbourne
On February 27th 2019, together with Baker McKenzie and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), Parents At Work ran the second Achieving Parental Leave Equality Roundtable session in Melbourne. A diverse group of Australian Corporate Organisations, SMEs, Government organisations and leaders in the Parental Leave Equality space came together to unravel some of the major challenges companies…
Read MoreShared Care Special: Follow Sarah and Peter’s shared parental leave story
It’s always inspiring to hear stories about working couples sharing their parental leave. This is definitely the case with the arrangement Sarah Maxwell and her husband Peter are looking forward to with their baby on the way. In a special feature of our new Parental Leave Essentials Podcast series, Kiri Stejko talks to Sarah, People and…
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