paid parental leave

During the COVID-19 expectant parents are demanding an urgent review to enable early access to the 18-week minimum wage leave package.

Sarah McCann Bartlett has been named the next CEO of the Australian HR Institute. What does she see as the priorities for the industry in 2020 and beyond?

The new policy will grant 164 days or nearly seven months of paid leave to each parent, for a total of 14 months paid leave per family.

I would hate to see Annabel Crabb’s and many others’ calls for a change of our current approach to parental leave fall on deaf ears, writes Kristine Ziwica.

The latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard paints a bleak assessment, Valeria Ignatieva from WORK180, says there’s a slightly different picture.

But working mothers report more stress and tension than working fathers, as this snapshot of 6000 working parents by Parents At Work finds.

Yet another employer has made the move to paid parental leave equality, with Allens announcing ALL new eligible parents will receive 18 weeks paid parental leave.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise joins the paid parental leave equality movement, offering a massive six months of paid leave to all new parents.

In collaboration with the Australian Cricketers’ Association, Cricket Australia has introduced a leading parental leave policy for professional cricketers.

Parental leave policies that encourage fathers to take leave and engage at home are guaranteed to positively impact gender equality at both home and at work.

All new parents at Konica Minolta Australia can now access 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of whether they’re a ‘primary’ or ‘secondary’ carer. 

The purpose of Annabel Crabb’s quarterly essay Men at Work isn’t to denigrate men for not doing more: it examines what prevents them doing more.