Paid Paternity Leave

[Sojourner]

Looks like Labor are considering introducing a paid Maternity leave situation which would include 4 weeks paid leave for Dads as well, the catch being that all workers fund the scheme through a fee of $5.70 per week.

This has been talked about for some time and was raised initially by the Democrats, will be interesting to see if it gets up!

Paid parental leave proposal would slug all workers
By Sue Dunlevy May 06, 2008 01:01am

WORKERS would pay a levy averaging $5.70 a week to fund a paid maternity leave scheme delivering mothers six months leave - under the first serious maternity-leave proposal put before the Federal Government.

A former senior public servant has drawn up plans for the $3.5 billion scheme that will be examined by the Productivity Commission inquiry into paid maternity leave tomorrow.

All employees would be levied 0.5 per cent of their wages to fund the scheme, which means the plan would cost someone on the average wage $5.70 a week.

A worker earning $100,000 a year would pay $10 a week. Employers would also be levied 0.5 per cent of their payroll to help fund the scheme.

Fathers as well as mothers would benefit from the scheme, gaining four weeks paid paternity leave after the birth of a child.

http://www.news.com.au/business/money/s ... 62,00.html

[Dogwatcher]

hope it kicks in this coming financial year

[smac]

I hope it never kicks in. 3 kids is plenty for me and no mongrel chipped in so I could get some extra paid time off - they didn't even do any of my work while I was away, leaving me a pile of work to come back to.

[Dogwatcher]

Just because you had to suffer mate, doesn't mean we all should.
Equal opportunities!
The family unit is the most important thing and both parties are needed there right from the start.

If it doesn't come in this financial year though, I'm against it!

[smac]

Equal to me means you can all gefugged...

[Dirko]

Just because you had to suffer mate, doesn't mean we all should.
Equal opportunities!
The family unit is the most important thing and both parties are needed there right from the start.

If it doesn't come in this financial year though, I'm against it!

Equal opportunites bah humbug...gefugged I say...

Never hear anything about compensating the stay at home Dads...just the stay at home Mums...

Go the F.I.L.F !!

* edit hah...smaccer posted a microsecond before my gefugged !! *

[Dogwatcher]

Go the F.I.L.F !!

I'm very concerned by this if it translates to what I think it does.
Something you'd like to tell us Jabber???

Also - good to see both you and Smaccer using my terminology

[Psyber]

Ahh... the march of the loony left starts already! Next will be the levy on all workers to fund IVF for all - in a country already too populated for its water supply

[smac]

Also - good to see both you and Smaccer using my terminology

I'll let you know when it gets approved.

[Dogwatcher]

Gold!

[redandblack]

Ahh... the march of the loony left starts already! Next will be the levy on all workers to fund IVF for all - in a country already too populated for its water supply

We can always rely on you, Psyber. A story on paternity leave evolves into an IVF levy and water shortages.

Only to be expected from the loony right

[Psyber]

Just call me "Nostradamus the less obscure", then wait and see if it happens in the next few years!

[mick]

Just call me "Nostradamus the less obscure", then wait and see if it happens in the next few years!

The socialists are slowly but surely revealing their high taxing agenda, unfortunately you are no Nostradamus, just a student of recent Australian history.

[redandblack]

Just call me "Nostradamus the less obscure", then wait and see if it happens in the next few years!

A levy on workers to fund IVF for all?

As I said, the loony right.

[Psyber]

Just call me "Nostradamus the less obscure", then wait and see if it happens in the next few years!

A levy on workers to fund IVF for all?
As I said, the loony right.

Although I don't really believe the IVF idea entirely myself yet, and I did make it up as a joke just now, I wouldn't have believed the levy on all to pay maternity leave one either based on what Kevin Rudd seemed to be saying in 2007. So, if this one is run up the flagpole and treated seriously now my apparently hare-brained suggestion will start to look more possible.. and some people are suggesting IVF should be available to all.

Personally, I don't think we should fund IVF for anybody. If you have a physiological problem that means you can't breed naturally, should you be helped to have children who may have the same problem and need IVF too???

Can we afford the increasing cost? And should we given the over-population issue?

Peter Costello was wrong encouraging people to have more children!

[redandblack]

Psyber, you're developing a worrying habit of turning proposals into facts.

I suggest you stick to reality, not flights of fancy.

[Psyber]

Psyber, you're developing a worrying habit of turning proposals into facts.
I suggest you stick to reality, not flights of fancy.

I didn't suggest either the maternity leave or my IVF fantasy were facts, just possibilities.
I did express concern that the maternity leave one was being looked at seriously, and I ran the IVF one up for a stir, but I would not say it is impossible the way things are shaping up as the obvious leaks flow from the government to soften us up to their ideas.

The single interest groups keep plugging away too, and populist pollies may listen to them if they think there are votes behind them, and it is compatible with their party dogma.
The question is, "Is Labor dogma closer to Rudd or Latham?"

[redden whites]

Calm down lads.......I checked just as the sun went down and the sky was not falling .

[Leaping Lindner]

Calm down lads.......I checked just as the sun went down and the sky was not falling .

We went out to have dinner tonight "el fresco" as it were and it rained . Bloody Rudd. When he is going to wake up to himself.

[Psyber]

Calm down lads.......I checked just as the sun went down and the sky was not falling .

We went out to have dinner tonight "el fresco" as it were and it rained . Bloody Rudd. When he is going to wake up to himself.

The PM and all the Premiers are praying for rain - and they are all Labor now so God listens!