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- time off work because of pregnancy and childbirth. All female employees, regardless of length of service and hours of work, are legally entitled to statutory maternity leave and to statutory...
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- Flexibility helps firms tap mother lode; generous maternity-leave policies aid in retaining valuable workers.(Women in Business)
- Generous maternity-leave policies aid in retaining valuable workers Since the passage of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many more working mothers now benefit from a minimum standard for maternity leaves. But the guarantee of up to 1Generous maternity-leave policies aid in retaining valuable...
- Research articles 1997-09-29
- Paid maternity leave in 'best practice' organisations: introduction, implementation and organisational context
- Abstract To date, Australia has no national paid maternity leave scheme, and access to such leave remains limited. In the private and community sectors in particular, workplace provision of paid maternity leave relies on individual enterprise initiatives. However, we still know relatively little about why anal on what basis...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- How paid maternity leave can save businesses money.
- Sep 6, 2001 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- It is cheaper for Australian employers to pay maternity leave than to replace workers who leave to have children. This is a finding of an internal survey conducted by the Westpac Bank. It was found...
- Research articles 2001-09-05
- ABC found guilty of breaching maternity leave provisions.
- Nov 13, 2006 (Discrimination Alert - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Tita Ilian, a Perth-based ABC producer, took two years and four months of maternity leave to have two children. Federal Magistrate Murray McInnis, of the Federal Magistrates Service, found tha Nov 13, 2006 (Discrimination Alert...
- Research articles 2006-11-13
- Do I Have to Skip my Maternity Leave to Buy a Home?
- Dear Ali; My husband and I are in the process of buying our first home. Â I am currently on paid maternity leave from my well paying job, and will return full-time 2 weeks after our closing date. Because my husband is a stay-at-home dad, the lenders...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Managers' views on maternity leave come under fire.
- Jul 22, 2001 Sunday Times ABIX via COMTEX -- In July 2001, TMP Worldwide released the results of a survey of Australian managers' attitude to maternity leave. The recruitment consultant discovered that 42.6 per cent of company heads do not think that women should...
- Research articles 2001-07-25
- ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS: Airline denies UK employees maternity leave.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 July 1999-ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS: Airline denies UK employees maternity leave C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:080799 UK women working for a major American airline are being denied access to basic maternity rights, says the Association of Flight AttendantsAFA, on...
- Research articles 1999-07-09
- Deutsche Bank Americas Extends Maternity Leave Benefit to 16 Weeks, Adds Additional Programs to Support Working Families
- NEW YORK -- Deutsche Bank Americas today announced the extension of its paid maternity leave benefit to 16 weeks following a birth or adoption. The benefit, which is available to both biological and adoptive parents who are the primary caregivers, is four weeks longer than the prior 12-week paid benefit....
- Research articles 2006-12-14
- ACTU threatens strike if maternity leave fails.
- Dec 12, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The ACTU has threatened to take industrial action if the Australian Government does not adopt a proposed maternity leave scheme. In December 2002, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, suggested that new mothers be permitted to...
- Research articles 2002-12-13
- Maternity leave: it's a reason to migrate.
- Mar 10, 2003 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) A Canadian academic warns Australia will struggle to compete in the global jobs market if a paid maternity leave scheme is not introduced. Linda Duxbury, of the School of Business at Carleton University in...
- Research articles 2003-03-10
- Maternity leave push queried.
- Jul 28, 2002 The Sunday Times ABIX via COMTEX -- Some female Australian public servants are being made to begin maternity leave six weeks before the birth. Sexual Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, says such action could be illegal because, while that was the 1973...
- Research articles 2002-07-29
- Company "demoted" worker after maternity leave.
- Sep 03, 2002 (Benchmarking HR - ABIX via COMTEX) Cynthia Thomson is seeking $A223,000 in damages from Orica Australia. Thomson claims that she was implicitly demoted by the chemicals company when she returned to work after taking maternity leave. The Federal Court has found...
- Research articles 2002-09-03
- Announcement Regarding Employee On Maternity Leave
- Use this template to announce that any particular employee will be taking her maternity leave and to declare the name of an employee who will be take care of all concerned matters in her absence.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- AUSTRALIAN COS WOULD BENEFIT FROM OFFERING MATERNITY LEAVE:STUDY.
- CANBERRA, June 3 Asia Pulse - Offering paid maternity leave to female workers rather than replacing them when they got pregnant could save Australian companies a year's salary, a Senate committee heard today. The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency said a new calculator soon to...
- Research articles 2002-06-03
- Michelle: Your Letters - Pros and cons of MP's maternity leave
- I WAS disgusted to learn that Health Minister Yvette Cooper is about to take her second term of maternity leave in two years. Ms Cooper was elected to serve her constituents. She is not doing an ordinary, run-of-the-mill job where she won't be missed for six months....
- Research articles 2001-02-25
- Matthew returns from maternity leave to golf in style
- SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, United States AFP — Scotland's Catriona Matthew returned from maternity leave in style Thursday, firing a first-round 68 in the weather-disrupted LPGA Safeway International. After a two-hour delay for a thunderstorm, the first round was suspended due to darkness. At that stage, Matthew shared the lead...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Orica damned over maternity leave bias.
- Aug 06, 2002 Discrimination Alert ABIX via COMTEX -- Chemicals manufacturer, Orica, has lost a case in the Australian Federal Court. Justice James Allsop has ruled that Orica unfairly downgraded the position of an employee following her return from maternity leave. The employee had...
- Research articles 2002-08-06
- Tales from the Trenches: The Ups and Downs of Parental Leave
- Cranky bosses, inflexible schedules, going into labor at work. These five parents navigated the tricky waters of when to take parental leave — and when to come back. Anne San Diego, CA Job at time of parental leave: Instructor at a major university...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- Rethinking Work and Family Policy: The Making and Taking of Parental Leave in Australia
- Despite the continued increase in female participation rates, Australia remains one of only two developed nations in the world without a paid maternity leave scheme. While research interest and public policy debate about paid maternity leave entitlements continues, little is known about the actual utilization of the 52 weeks unpaid...
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Holden SNAGs new image with maternity coup.
- Oct 08, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Holden will allow 14 weeks' paid maternity leave under sweeping changes to its employment policy. The Australian car manufacturer is also considering company-sponsored on-site creches. The Australian vehicle industry has always set the pace on...
- Research articles 2002-10-08
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