Submissions to other bodies
Queensland
Government Submission
- Productivity
Commission Inquiry
into Paid Maternity,
Paternity and Parental
Leave
The Queensland Government:
- recommends that Paid Maternity Leave be paid up to the rate of the Federal Minimum Wage for 14 weeks, consistent with International Labour Organisation recommendations.
- supports a Commonwealth Government funded Paid Maternity Leave scheme.
- proposes that eligibility under the Paid Maternity Leave scheme be primarily for the birth mother , or adopting parent, and be tied to the women’s previous employment.
- proposes
that the same return
to work guarantee
is available to
eligible employees
under Paid Maternity
Leave as outlined
under part 2 section
33 of the Queensland
Industrial Relations
Act 1999) and Part
7 Division 6 of the
Federal Workplace
Relations Act 1996).
Joint Governments' Submission to the Senate Building and Construction Industry Inquiry
The Joint Governments reject the intention of the Federal government to unilaterally override the jurisdiction of the States and Territories in relation to industrial relations because it undermines the strength of the Federal system
Labour hire and contracting
Labour hire arrangements involve a relationship between three parties in which the services of a worker are on-hired by a labour hire agency to a host company
Submission from Queensland Government to Standing Committee on Family and Human Services on Work and Family Balance
Australia, like many other western countries, is facing a decline in labour force growth over the next five decades. This decline is related to the projected decline in population growth, specifically growth in the working-age population, as well as a projected decline in the labour force participation rate
Last updated 21 July 2009
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