The Federal Government will introduce legislation to add superannuation to Paid Parental Leave (PPL), set to kick in from July next year. In what amounts to an election promise, Labor says the new laws will start from 1 July 2025, after the May deadline for the next federal election. Bef...
The Federal Government has amended its Paid Parental Leave ("PPL") scheme so as to provide wider and more flexible options to families seeking access to PPL. The changes aim to introduce key aspects of the Government's Women's Economic Security Package (as announced in the 2018-1...
More than 2 million federal government employees will get paid parental leave for the first time with a new bill, as the U.S. slowly catches up to the rest of the developed world with its family leave policies. The Senate gave the final congressional green light on theNational Defense Auth...
Beginning October 2020, the United States’ largest employer, the federal government, is poised to provide paid parental leave to its more than 2 million employees. The provisions, contained within the larger National Defense Authorization Act, have the potential for broader implications in the lands...
The article focuses on the Queensland federal government's changes to paid parental leave (PPL) and its impact on new parents. It notes that under the proposal, new parents with workplace schemes...
Government employers Employees of the federal government now receive 12 weeks of paid parental leave after the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act went into effect in October 2020. Unpaid leave with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) You may have heard of the Family and Medical Leave Act (...
parents are offered an average of ten months ofparentalleavewhere some countries‚ such as Germany‚ will extend theleaveup to 39 months (Berger and Waldfogel 2001). In 1993‚ the United States federal government finally passed a law that would help with job protection for parents and...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday that congressional leaders have reached a “real breakthrough” deal to give 12 weeks of paid parental leave to millions of federal workers as part of the annual defense policy bill.
A federal ban-the-box measure was also included in the same legislative package as the paid parental leave law.The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 (Fair Chance Act) includes provisions:Prohibiting the federal government from requesting criminal history information from applicants before...
Paid parental leave: support for parents with newborn children: inquiry report The Australian government's statutory paid parental leave scheme should be taxpayer-funded, and should provide paid postnatal leave for a total of 18 weeks that can be shared by eligible parents, at the adult federal ...