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Parental Leave in Australia |
An Interview with Marian Baird
Marian Baird
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by Suzan Lewis | Download Interview (PDF)
Lewis: The Australian government has just agreed to implement paid parental leave. Has it been a struggle to bring this about?
Baird: Yes it has. Until this announcement, Australia and the USA were the only two of the developed nations that didn’t have a nationally mandated paid maternity or parental leave scheme.
Lewis: How did you get this onto the national agenda?
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A New Regime for Paid Parental Leave in Québec |
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Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay |
In 2006, Québec (a francophone province of Canada) introduced a new Parental Leave program. Québec parents now have a better paid and more flexible regime than Canada as a whole. The main change however, and a true innovation for North America, is the introduction of a non-transferable right to paternity leave, which has translated into a steady increase in participation of fathers; on average, some 56 % of fathers have taken a 7 week leave in 2007.
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| LITERATURE UPDATES |
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an online database that contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
One year ago, there were 9,600 citations in the Literature Database. As of August 2009, we now have over 10,720 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications that have recently been entered into this database.
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