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11:59AM | Friday, 27 November 2015 | The announcement comes just days after founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he will be taking two months off work when his first child is born.
11:26AM | Wednesday, 25 November 2015 | The facebook founder has set a precedent that could lead to the tech industry retaining more women.
11:35AM | Friday, 20 November 2015 | Employees at the music streaming service are the latest tech employees to receive an improved paid parental leave package.
5:09AM | Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | Opposition leader Tony Abbott has provoked a round of controversy over comments the Coalition’s Paid Parental Leave scheme would help “women of calibre to have families”, with an unlikely ally in prominent feminist Eva Cox coming to his defence.
6:41PM | Thursday, 28 June 2012 | The government has introduced two weeks of paid paternity leave and business doesn't have to be the scheme's paymaster.
3:43AM | Thursday, 8 March 2012 | The Coalition would deliver a budget surplus in its first year in office, says shadow treasurer Joe Hockey, but managers and consumers will determine the fate of individual businesses.
9:08PM | Friday, 30 September 2011 | The peak industry body for small businesses says it will lobby hard at next week’s Tax Summit for the removal of red tape, especially surrounding superannuation and paid parental leave.
9:16PM | Monday, 5 September 2011 | Small business owners will not miss out on a new parental leave payment, which will deliver almost $1,200 to new fathers and partners from January next year, but small business says it should not be asked to administer the payment.
6:39PM | Tuesday, 28 June 2011 | Small business owners have been told to “get cracking” on their paid parental leave systems, despite a new survey revealing employers’ ongoing hostility towards their paymaster duties.
5:14PM | Monday, 9 May 2011 | Almost 50,000 women have applied for the Federal Government’s Paid Parental Leave scheme, as small businesses prepare for their involvement in the regime from July.
