Sign a paid maternity leave petition

Date: 15 July 2008

Australia and the United States are the only industrialised nations without a system of universal paid maternity leave.

Even Tanzania pays all women 14 weeks paid maternity leave!

The World Health Organisation says women should breastfeed their children for 6 months.

The Productivity Commission and the Australian Government are currently considering introducing a system of paid maternity and paternity leave.

We believe that Australia should catch up with the rest of the world, and like Canada and the United Kingdom have a system of paid maternity leave that provides women (and or their partners if they choose) to have 6 months paid leave at full wage replacement, to be with their children in their first months of life.

Click to sign the Online Petition for Six Months Paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks Paid Paternity Leave

For further information

Contact:	Amanda Tattersall
Union:	Unions NSW
WWW:	http://www.unionsnsw.org.au/

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