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Women, work and health

Posted by Vicki Buchanan on 27 February 2011 | 0 Comments

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Is your job going to kill you? Do high level job demands increase the likelihood of serious illness? Are we as women really able to continue to manage a balanced work and home life, juggling what we have always done in an environment of increasingly demanding work expectations and sometimes even more demanding family expectations?

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PML - news flash

Posted by Jenni Colwill on 6 October 2008 | 0 Comments

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Just heard on the news that ACT Labor is promising to start with 18 weeks PML for mothers and 2 weeks for the other parent in July 2009 if they are elected. As far as I can tell, this means that if the Federal Government's proposed scheme goes ahead as discussed in the draft report women employed by the ACT government will end up with 36 weeks, and 4 weeks for the other parent.

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