KPMG
Replacing the federal government’s Paid Parental Leave (PPL) system with one based on principles of gender equality is essential to tackling impediments to women’s economic participation, and would help Australia move on a wider level towards equal responsibility for raising children, KPMG argues in a paper released today. The report was developed with the Business Council of Australia’s Women’s Participation Taskforce.
The current PPL system provides for 20 weeks paid at the minimum wage. There are 18 weeks usually paid to the mother, and two weeks are generally paid to the father, as “Dad and Partner Pay”