Fed: Nine months until parental leave plan is born

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2010
Fed: Nine months until parental leave plan is born

Families Minister JENNY MACKLIN has celebrated a milestone in the gestation of the
government's parental leave scheme .. nine months to go.

Ms MACKLIN says parents who conceived from today would be eligible for 18-weeks of
taxpayer-funded paid parental leave .. with the scheme due to start on January 1 .. 2011.

She used a press conference at the baby section of Canberra's Target store to downplay
Opposition Leader TONY ABBOTT's plan .. which gives parents six months' leave on full
pay up to 150 thousand per annum .. funded by a levy on big business.

She's said he wants to impose a great big new tax on businesses .. like Target .. that'd
then of course increase the price of goods that they sell.

AAP RTV gd/sb/klw

KEYWORD: PARENTAL (CANBERRA)

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