WEL has submitted responses to the Productivity Commission’s draft Report on Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave – Paid Parental Leave: Support for Parents with Newborn Children Draft inquiry report.
About the Productivity Commission’s public inquiry into Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
The Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a public inquiry into paid maternity, paternity and paternal leave. The Commission released an issues paper on April 8 2008 establishing terms of reference for the inquiry and noting that the inquiry would concentrate on support for parents of newborn children up to the age of two years, and would:
- consider the economic, productivity and social costs and benefits of providing paid maternity, paternity and parental leave;
- assess the current extent of employer-provided of paid maternity, paternity and parental leave in Australia;
- identify the models that could be used to provide such parental support and assess these against a number of criteria.These include
- their cost effectiveness;
- impacts on business;
- labour market consequences;
- work/family preferences of parents;
- child and parental welfare; and
- interactions with the Social Security and Family Assistance Systems;
- assess the impacts and applicability of the various models across the full range of employment forms (such as the self-employed, farmers, and shift workers); and
- assess the efficiency and effectiveness of Government policies that would facilitate the provision and take-up of these models.
For more information about the Productivity Commission’s inquiry, visit the Productivity Commission’s website
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