Paid Maternity Leave
Maternity leave is back on the agenda as part of the ongoing struggle for substantive fairness for working women. In the current "round" of enterprise bargaining in higher education, NTEU has made improving paid maternity leave one of its key priority claims. This has resulted in significant improvements, ranging between 26 and 36 weeks' paid maternity leave for most staff in tertiary education - making tertiary education the leading sector on maternity leave in the Australian economy.
Click on any of the links below for more information, or contact Sarah Roberts, Acting Industrial Coordinator on sroberts@nteu.org.au
Further information:
| Paid parental leave campaign materials | Campaign materials for NTEU's enterprise bargaining claim for improved paid maternity leave: "better paid parental leave for a better balance between work and family". |
| Parental Leave Fact Sheet | Everything you wanted to know about the NTEU's Parental Leave EB claim |
| Paid Maternity Leave and the NTEU | Information on the NTEU's involvement with the struggle for paid maternity leave: the history of paid maternity leave; international standards, CEDAW and ILO Conventions; recent developments. |
| Parental leave offers in higher education bargaining | A summary of management offers on parental leave in higher education enterprise bargaining, as at 9 March 2005. |
| Paid maternity standards in other industries | Victorian Trades Hall Council's summary of paid maternity leave standards outside the tertiary education sector. |
| NTEU Senate submission in response to the Workplace Relations Amendment (Paid Maternity Leave) Bill | NTEU's submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Legislation Committee in response to the Workplace Relations Amendment (Paid Maternity Leave) Bill 2002. |
| NTEU Response to HREOC's Valuing Parenthood | NTEU's response to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's paper on paid maternity leave, Valuing Parenthood: Options for Paid Maternity Leave. |