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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Paid maternity leave is one of many possible means of promoting women's economic security, based on encouraging and enabling women's labour force participation. |
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Employers have 12 months to improve maternity and paternity leave arrangements before a series of statutory changes under the Employment Bill take effect in April 2003. |
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Maternity leave paid to employees who return to the workforce, perhaps after some additional period of unpaid leave, enables women to maintain continuous connection with the workforce during a period of time that is not only their prime child-bearing years but also important working years.
Paid maternity leave reduces the amount of lost earnings by providing direct compensation for a specified period, and by increasing women's attachment to the labour force following the birth of a child through assisting return to work.
Paid Maternity Leave - The firm provides up to 12 weeks paid maternity leave to associates who have been with the firm at least one year and have billed at least 1000 hours during the one-year period immediately preceding maternity leave. |
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Maternity leave is a period of paid or unpaid leave from the workplace that is available to women at child birth, or upon the adoption of a child, as opposed to parental leave which is available to either parent.
Paid maternity leave is just one of a suite of measures that must be provided to ensure that parents are able to manage their work and family obligations; that women in particular are not disadvantaged by their greater role in family responsibilities and that men are able to take their place as equal partners at home as well as work.
Maternity/Paternity Leave Three paid weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child. |
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Employees are also protected under the Act against redundancies on the grounds of taking maternity, paternity or parental leave, and the same applies to redundancy measures affecting pregnant women and women who have recently had children. |
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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While minimum maternity leave entitlements provide for unpaid leave, a proportion of Australian employers also provide some form of paid maternity or parental leave.
While paid maternity leave alone will not necessarily alter the choices women make about having children or provide sufficient payment to compensate for years of financial dependency, paid maternity leave could provide necessary support for women who must remain in paid work. |
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The Government intends to make changes to the regulations which govern maternity and parental leave and to introduce regulations on the new rights to paternity and adoption leave and pay. |
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