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Victoria looks to enshrine work from home rights

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... greater workforce participation and cut congestion. "We will not stand by while workers - especially women, single mums, carers - get punished for needing balance in their lives. This is about respect, this is about dignity, this is about fairness," ...

Public sector pay gap revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... progress, some areas for improvement remain, Wooldridge said. The data showed that men account for just 11% of all primary carers leave taken, and 49% of employers still have a gender pay gap in favour of men. "Although we are seeing positive results ...

WFH employees put in 20% more hours

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... and the strong labour market," Brooks said. Brooks said the participation rate has picked up particularly for mothers and carers who can work from home when they previously may have been locked out of the workforce. "This analysis confirms that mothers ...

WFH costs 5.8% of employees' salary: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... on a regular basis. Previous CEDA research found participation in WFH occupations has increased since the pandemic among carers, women with young children, and those with impactful health conditions or a disability. The growth in WFH has therefore helped ...

Men, women in same occupation drive pay gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024  |  NEWS
... the same occupation. "This research busts the outdated myth that the gender pay gap exists because more women are nurses, carers and administrators while more men are lawyers, bankers, and pilots," Griselda said. Under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 ...

KPMG recommends gender-focused super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
KPMG has proposed superannuation reforms targeted at home carers and recipients of paid parental leave to help close the gender gap. The KPMG Towards Gender Equity in Retirement report recommended the government consider adding superannuation contributions ...

Vellum Funds Management builds property with NDIS units

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... development in Sydney that will feature a mix of commercial space and residential apartments including 10 NDIS units and a carers unit. Vellum has partnered with Urban Property Group (UPG) on the $1 billion Places Build-to-Rent (Places BTR) fund. The ...

Male carers face "career trap" for seeking flexible working: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... the DCA-Suncorp Inclusion@Work Index, which coincided with Flexible Working Day on June 6. The survey found that - Male carers are more likely to report having personally experienced discrimination in the past year (25%) than male non-carers (14), they ...

NSW Government makes social impact investment for palliative care

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... that, and we have about 40 doctors who are mostly GPs, but some specialist palliative care doctors. There are also nurses, carers, and volunteers who support people who want to die surrounded by the people they love. Essentially, we're taking that model ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... expense of society because it doesn't account for externalities. There is no accounting for the impact to society of having carers. What is the social impact of having people with disabilities living in supported housing and having a measure of independence? ...
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