Parents at Work

Leaders across industries addressed the Work&Care Summit, hosted by Family Friendly Workplaces (FFW), to discuss how the businesses are rethinking care. 

The ACTU has identified reforming paid parental leave as a key strategy for halving the national gender pay gap and the workforce participation gap.

There are nine ASX 200 companies in the group of 70, as well as major firms, key household brands and government agencies certified.

Imagine a world where every new parent felt supported in their transition to and from work. Here’s how employers can make it reality.

On his first day in the job as CEO of KPMG, Andrew Yates made a powerful announcement about the firm’s leave policies that would make national headlines.

While flexible work was available pre COVID-19 at Norton Rose Fulbright, Alison Deitz says the pandemic era has sparked a revolution in how it’s used and accessed.

Employers must normalise flexible work, address domestic violence and review their paid parental leave policies in order to be family friendly during COVID-19 and beyond.

A new analysis from PwC on behalf of the Gidget Foundation shows the monumental burden that perinatal depression and anxiety costs Australia. 

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

Steve ‘The Commando’ Willis isn’t known for sharing much emotion, but that’s exactly what the former Biggest Loser trainer did on Wednesday night in front of a corporate audience.