Maternity laws around the world have become increasingly progressive. In many countries, labour laws mandate that all women employees be provided 26 weeks of paid leave during maternity. This law is being forcefully enforced in many countries of the world. However, is it really a solution? The ...
In 2010, Australia finally introduced maternity leave, making it one of the last OECD nations to do so. Yet this policy had been announced by the Keating Government some sixteen years earlier, only to be watered down and then ultimately scuppered by subsequent governments. How, then, do we ...
, ranging from 43 weeks in Greece (the longest entitlement) to none in the United States – the only OECD member with no national provision of paid maternity leave. Here is an accompanying chart showing the United States compared to other OECD nations (needless to say, the article never ...
The government boasted that Australia had been performing well on UN gender indicators.Footnote77However, it failed to mention that many of the policies praised had been introduced by Labor, such as paid maternity leave for public servants (the Whitlam government) and the Sex Discrimination legislati...
Finally, under the Trump plan, the federal government will guarantee, for the first time, six weeks of paid maternity leave. There are some tax breaks in the plan, and it is difficult to argue against tax breaks, but mostly this plan is about deep government intrusions into the childcare ...
Motherhood Penalty Revisited: Impacts of Maternity Leave Mandates on Nature of Employment Contracts In this paper we study the extension of paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks in India to estimate its effect on the contractual arrangements of w... S Bose,S Chatterjee,H White,... ...
especially when there are pressing demands on both sides. Parents will be able to benefit from the following enhanced pro-family leave scheme initiatives to help cope with this dilemma: Paid Maternity Leave, Paid Childcare Leave, Unpaid Infant Care Leave, Government-Paid Adoption Leave and Work-Li...
Comparative perspectives on changes to Canada's paid parental leave: Implications for class and gender In 2001, Canada extended the length of time parents could claim benefits. When combined with maternity benefits, a total of 50 weeks of benefits is availab... Patricia,M.,Evans - 《Internationa...
and 5 to 15 days of paid holidays each year, as well as maternity leave, wedding leave, funeral leave and family reunion leave in line with the regulations. The number of primary-level labor unions rose from 207,000 in 1952 to 2.73 million in 2018 and their members grew from 10 million...
The draft policy states that public servants who limit their family to just two children will be eligible for two additional increments in their service period. They will also enjoy fully paid maternity or paternity leave of 12 months. During this leave, they will also get t...