Parental leave
Parents, caregivers and their children should have the opportunity and the right to spend as much time together as posible during their first months and years together. Children need time to bond with those that care for them.” Parental leave is an crucial working right but it’s also an important tool for enlightened employers who want the economic benefits of retaining experienced workers, ensuring a place for families in their business and contributing to their communities.
TEU campaigns for the rights of parents to choose to spend important bonding time with their new babies and children without sacrificing their jobs or careers.
- Thanks to webchicken @ Flickr for the photo
Links to relevant information:
Women Returners.co.nz
If you’re a mother and you’ve made time to browse this site, chances are you’re looking for information about returning to paid work. Welcome! You have come to the right place. This website is created especially for You, the woman returner! It aims to inform, encourage and work for you. However, while the site is aimed at women returners, the information may also be of interest and relevance to other individuals re-entering or recently returned to the labour market. So if you’re not a woman returner, please feel just as welcomed.
Department of Labour
The Employment Relations Service provides basic information about the rights and obligations of employees, employers and self-employed persons in respect of parental leave. It contains the current parental leave entitlements, featuring statutory paid parental leave for birth mothers, their partners as well as adoptive parents.
Inland Revenue – paid parental leave
Paid parental leave is a government-funded entitlement paid to eligible working mothers and adoptive parents when they take parental leave from their job(s) to care for their newborn or adopted child (under the age of six).” These payments go towards the loss of income that working mothers and adoptive parents experience when they take parental leave from work to care for a new baby or adopted child.
Research on parental leave
Department of Labour research explores the decision-making and experiences of working parents before, during and after parental leave. Also examines the experiences of parents ineligible for parental leave, as well as those of fathers and employers.
