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Bridging the Work and Family Divide: 
Understanding the benefits of Family Friendly Workplaces

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The Bridging The Work and Family Divide Report provides a strong evidence base supporting the benefits of investing in Family Friendly Workplace policies and practices and ensuring employees are fully enabled to utilise these.  

It combines a detailed review of Australian and global academic research with stories from the lived experiences of founding partners and their employees.

The Report draws on data and insights from 70 businesses that participated in the inaugural year of the Family Friendly Workplaces initiative and are now certified, collectively these businesses employee almost 300,000 Australians. 

The Report illustrates clear progress by participating companies on embedding flexible work and gender-neutral policies. It also highlights some areas of increasing need – notably addressing the complex pressures faced by carers and the rising cost of childcare. 

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Essays on Equality: The politics of childcare

The Global Institute of Women's Leadership

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About Essays on Equality: The politics of childcare

A collection of essays on the ‘gendered politics of childcare’ from the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership. The collection showcases best-practice examples from around the world, highlighting diverse experiences of parenthood.

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State of the World's Fathers 2021: Structural Solutions to Achieve Equality in Care Work

Men Care

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About State of the World's Fathers 2021: Structural Solutions to Achieve Equality in Care Work

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Working Parents - A Quick Guide To Your Rights

Australian Human Rights Commission

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About Working Parents - A Quick Guide To Your Rights

The Employee Guide titled Pregnancy, parental leave and return to work: know your rights provides employees with more detailed information on their rights. It also has contact details for organisations that can help them, for example, to resolve disputes and make a complaint.

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Flexibility In The Workplace

Workplace Ombudsman

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About Flexibility In The Workplace

Tools, resources and information about flexible working arrangements and negotiating flexibility agreements.

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Paid Parental Leave Scheme Employer Toolkit

Department of Human Services

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About Paid Parental Leave Scheme Employer Toolkit

The Paid Parental Leave scheme Employer Toolkit is designed to assist employers, human resources staff, accountants and tax practitioners prepare employers for their role in providing Parental Leave Pay to their eligible employees.

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Achieving Gender Diversity In The Workplace

The Diversity Council of Australia

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About Achieving Gender Diversity In The Workplace

The business benefits for achieving gender equity in the workplace are well documented by both research organisations, government and by leading practice employers. Here you’ll find a collection of resources to help you manage and achieve better gender equality in the workplace.

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Good Practice, Good Business Factsheets

Australian Human Rights Commission

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About Good Practice, Good Business Factsheets

Downloadable factsheets designed to help promote diversity and prevent discrimination in your workplace. They can be downloaded individually or as a set of 12 factsheets and a policy template.

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Supporting Working Parents: A Toolkit For Employers

Australian Human Rights Commission

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About Supporting Working Parents: A Toolkit For Employers

Toolkit includes:

  • Tool 1: Policies to support working parents
  • Tool 2: Responding to pregnancy announcements
  • Tool 3: Work, health and safety hazards and risk management issues
  • Tool 4: Parental leave checklist for employers
  • Tool 5: Australian Government Paid Parental Leave scheme
  • Tool 6: Employer checklist for flexible work requests

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A Quick Employer Guide to Supporting Working Parents

Australian Human Rights Commission

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About A Quick Employer Guide to Supporting Working Parents

The Employer Toolkit on Supporting Working Parents provides employers with more detailed information on their obligations. It also has contact details for services that can help organisations meet their legal obligations and build a safe and fair workplace for everyone.

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2020 Responding the Future of Work + Family

UNICEF & Parents At Work

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About 2020 Responding the Future of Work + Family

9 Key Family Friendly Workplace recommendations for Employers to bridge the work and family divide beyond Covid-19.

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Advancing Parental Leave Equality and Introducing Shared Care in Australia

Parents At Work

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About Advancing Parental Leave Equality and Introducing Shared Care in Australia

The business case for action to support employers to understand and implement policies and practices that support working parents during the transitional stage of balancing work and family.

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National Working Families Report 2019

Parents At Work and Supporting Organisations

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About National Working Families Report 2019

The National Working Families Report 2019 looks at the responses of over 6,000 Australian working parents and carers on what they need to support them align work & family as well as recommendations for employers on what they can do to create family friendly workplaces of the future.

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Building Better Business for Children

UNICEF

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About Building Better Business for Children

An Interim National Baseline Assessment of Australian policy and law shaping business activities that impact on children.

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Advancing Parental Leave Equality Network

APLEN

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About Advancing Parental Leave Equality Network

APLEN is a network of organisations established as part of a commitment to lead UN global gender equality efforts to advocate and advance parental leave equality in Australia.

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Family Friendly Policies – Handbook for Business

UNICEF

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About Family Friendly Policies – Handbook for Business

The handbook builds on the work of UNICEF to redesign workplaces for the future and enable parents to give their children the best start in life, while boosting productivity and women’s empowerment.

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