hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Maternity leave pay
"The Productivity Commission has recommended a taxpayer-funded scheme that would provide 18 weeks' paid leave at the adult minimum wage of $544 a week, costing the federal budget about $450 million a year and businesses $74 million in extra superannuation payments.In a draft report, the commission argues that such a scheme would "yield community-wide gains in the long term", including better child and maternal welfare, greater workforce participation by women, and improved work-family balance and gender equity.
Although Labor has talked up the prospect of a scheme for years, it is now signalling that the policy could be dumped or shelved because of the financial crisis."
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No doubt the Productivity Commission recommended the scheme which the government now seems likely to sideline, because the benefits outweigh the costs.
The benefits are two sided. On one hand working mothers themselves will be able to spend more crucial time looking after their new born children. This could only increase child mental and emotional well-being which would mean less government resources going towards such areas.
On the other hand mothers who have had suitable time away from work after giving birth will still have a job, and won’t be unemployed. This will boost economic activity and all the tax and other benefits to the government that go along with economic activity. Under the current situation that delivers no significant amount of government funded paid maternity leave, potential mothers often have to leave their jobs completely in order to give birth and look after their new-born:
"The report on global gender equity, released last week by the World Economic Forum, shows Australian women are the most educated in the world — ranking equal No.1 alongside Norway, Finland, Denmark, France, New Zealand and the US — but are ranked 40th in terms of female participation in paid work."
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