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All About Work and Parental Leave

11 June 2009 No Comment

Image by Bobster855If you’re at home with the kids, what is stopping you going back to work? In Australia, the top 3 barriers for parents returning to work are lack of flexible jobs (90%), cost of child care (57%) and a general lack of self confidence (26%). Do you think these are similar to what is stopping you?

For those who are working, the main reasons for returning to work include income (85%), social interaction (50%), maintain skills (48%) and career aspirations (38%). And nearly 60% of CareerMums survey respondents stated that their current/previous employer did not have a flexible work or parental leave policy, or they were unaware that these policies existed.

And if you’ve been worrying about the credit crunch, in Australia,
* 28%  believe that the economic downturn will not affect their employment – so they expect to be in the same role and do not expect to be made redundant.
* 23% are considering a return to work sooner than expected.
* 15% indicated that there will be no change to their current plan of being on parental leave or staying at home with their children for an extended period of time.
* Around 10% of respondents have had their work hours reduced or their role has been made redundant.

Find out more about what is going on for working parents in Australia

 

Source: Survey stats from CareerMums www.careermums.com.au

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