"Dux" <dux@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:138bj9i62b725a4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why is it that the US and Australia are the only industrialised
countries
> where the gov doesn't assist parents with parental leave? Even countries
> like Pakistan pay parental leave. Is this a joke?
No, no feeling person is laughing in this hard uncaring country, even New
Zealand has maternity leave now. Employers cannot have it all thier
way....
And wakeup ALP, this is an election issue.
From
http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Women/NZPML.html
'In 1998 the ILO reported that "more than 120 countries around the world
provide paid maternity leave and health benefits by law, including most
industrialized nations except Australia, New Zealand and the United
States"
..
New Zealand has now removed itself from the ILO's list of recalcitrant
nations by introducing 12 weeks paid parental leave (effective from 1 July
2002).
Around two-thirds of working women in New Zealand will be eligible for 12
weeks paid maternity leave from July next year.'
