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Fair Work
How about that! Fair Work Australia has upheld the pay equity claim for community service workers. They also asked the parties to make further submissions related to identifying the extent to which gender has inhibited wage growth in the industry to help them create a remedy to address that situation.
Women, work and health
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?
Will the real problem please stand up?
I have always believed that the first step in successful problem solving is to question your assumptions. This means understanding how you arrive at your interpretations of the world, and how that influences your thinking about the particular problem at hand, or how it can be solved.
So much to do, so little time!
It's not often that I get upfront and personal in this blog, but lately I have been busier than a lizard being chased by a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, if you'll pardon my addled adages!
Next steps
Now that the report is out, the next steps towards getting paid maternity leave in Australia could be up to the women and men who want to see it happen.
PML - news flash
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.
18 weeks plus 2
The report is out, and it proposes 18 weeks at the minimum adult weekly wage level for all eligible parents which is currently $543.78 per week (unless you don't earn that much). Two weeks leave for the other parent is also proposed.
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