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AUSTRALIAN COS WOULD BENEFIT FROM OFFERING MATERNITY LEAVE:STUDY.
AsiaPulse News, June, 2002
CANBERRA, June 3 Asia Pulse - Offering paid maternity leave to female workers rather than replacing them when they got pregnant could save Australian companies a year's salary, a Senate committee heard today.
The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency said a new calculator soon to be available on its website at www.eowa.gov.au aimed to bring home the cost of replacing staff to companies.
Research by the agency showed one in four companies with more than 100 employees offered paid maternity leave, with larger companies more likely to offer it than smaller ones.
Agency director Fiona Krautil said the hospitality and retail sectors, which used large numbers of part-time and casual staff, had been particularly hard to convince of the costs...
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