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Paid maternity leave: The good, the bad, the ugly

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  • Baird, M

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"In Australia’s masculine wage-earner welfare state, paid maternity leave was an employment entitlement largely ignored by government, unions and employers. Consequently, Australia lags well behind the rest of the world in providing paid maternity leave for working women. On 11 December 2002 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) released a proposal for a national paid maternity leave scheme for Australia. This paper argues that the HREOC proposal offers a ‘safety-net’ model that is compatible with the existing industrial relations framework. Implicit in this however, is an expectation that award arbitration, enterprise bargaining and managerial prerogative will continue to be used to augment these minimalist provisions. This paper therefore sets out to examine how paid maternity leave has fared as an arbitrated, bargained or company entitlement to date. The outcomes, it is concluded, have been very uneven, ranging from the good, through to the bad, and even the ugly."

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  • Baird, M, 2003. "Paid maternity leave: The good, the bad, the ugly," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 29(1), pages 97-109.
    • Handle: RePEc:fli:journl:27733
    Note: Baird, M., 2003. Paid maternity leave: The good, the bad, the ugly. Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 29 No. 1, pp. 97-109
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    1. Rebecca Edwards, 2006. "Maternity Leave and the Evidence for Compensating Wage Differentials in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 82(258), pages 281-297, September.
    2. Saima Zubair & Amani Moazzam, 2024. "Exploring Career Construction: A Single Narrative Case Study Guided by the Systems Theory Framework of Career Development (STFCD)," South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, , vol. 13(1), pages 81-97, April.
    3. Guyonne Kalb, 2018. "Paid Parental Leave and Female Labour Supply: AÂ Review," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 94(304), pages 80-100, March.
    4. Alexander J. S. Colvin & Owen Darbishire, 2013. "Convergence in Industrial Relations Institutions: The Emerging Anglo-American Model?," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 66(5), pages 1047-1077, October.

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