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Question: Australia has to date not legislated for paid maternity leave, unlike most other countries. Assess who should take responsibility for paid maternity leave. Explain the reasons for your response.

Paid maternity leave is defined as income replacement to compensate for the leave from paid employment necessary around child-birth (Baird, 2002a:2). In the developed world today, many western countries have designed a legislated for paid maternity leave such as Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand and more. Indeed only USA and Australia have to date not legislated for paid maternity leave across the workforce (O’Neill, 2004: E-Brief). This consequently placed the responsibility on three different groups in Australia including employers who value as the most significant role follow by the government and finally their family, which three groups should have the purpose of giving financial support and psycho-social health to pregnant women and their new infants.......

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