Small business support for Abbott's paid parental leave plan
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Luke Cornish
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10/03/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Tony Abbott’s proposed plan to introduce a national paid parental leave scheme has received support from the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA).
CEO Jaye Radisich said that Tony Abbott’s scheme would mean that women in the workforce would receive leave at their existing salary level regardless of whether they are employed by big business, small business or if they work for themselves.
“This step would place small business employees on an equal footing with those employees who work for big businesses and government that already have generous paid parental leave schemes in place,” Radisich said. “Importantly, the proposed scheme applies equally to contractors and the self-employed, not just salaried employees. This is critical so that small business operators who are sole traders get treated equally when it comes to paid parental leave.”
Radisich said that this plan represented a good opportunity for big business to ‘give back’ to the community, and help equalise the position of all working people of child-bearing age, regardless of whether they are self employed, or employed by a small or large business.
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David on
10 Mar 2010 04:03 PM
O/K to "give back to the community", but who pays for this? Is it the same as SG superannuation that was once classed as being part of an employee wage packet, but now just an accepted thing and not included in wages?
On top of everything else, a small business employer will now have to pay for couples to have babies. How stupid is this?!!!!!!!!!!
Tony Abbott has lost the plot, we may as well all vote for labor anyway because that''s all we will have no matter which way we vote.