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Don't know the answer to this one, as my current industry employ is not that well represented by females (automotive mechanical and tyres).Do businesses have these requirements as well, or only govt? i think that would disadvantage women in the workplace... i'd be scared of employing someone of child bearing age!!
I'm hoping next year to get a job after 8 years out of the workforce due to kids. A lot of the kinder mums I speak to are in the same boat, so we will all be trying to get that same job that is part time, school hours, family friendly, not too hard, not too dull etc etc next year.
Very frustrating... sorry to vent
I'm hoping next year to get a job after 8 years out of the workforce due to kids. A lot of the kinder mums I speak to are in the same boat, so we will all be trying to get that same job that is part time, school hours, family friendly, not too hard, not too dull etc etc next year. (
Edmond I did broking for a few years while I took a break from this industry. Then my daughter got a bit bigger and working from home got tough, so decided to work away from home and broking for someone else would've only pretty much paid for daycare fees. Handed in my license a few months ago. Hmm if I knew then what I knew now. Nevermind.
Wow working for the govt sounds very cushy!
Too cushy for some.
Left government service as a middle manager in 1998 after all the BS got too much. Such bikering over things like:
Office is smaller than Joe's.
Not wanting to change jobs because of the loss of driving a govvy car home overnight.
Endless reorganisations, rebranding etc with timewasting meetings and then dealing with people having to apply for their jobs.
So many "training" courses.
The mind boggles in the amount of wasted time in the public service.
I have to say that being a public servant in SA has been fantastic compared to what other employees do/don't get.
In SA (not sure if same interstate) we're allowed to take a total of 2yrs off when you have a baby. So basically you can stay home and your job is still yours until your baby turns 2yrs of age. Then at 2yrs of age, you have to return to work but you can choose for how many days so it can be 1 or 2 or 3 etc.
Well, i had a baby in 2007, got 18 weeks paid maternity leave, then unpaid leave till 2009 when i had my 2nd baby, got paid 18 weeks maternity leave again and stayed off work until 2010 when i had my 3rd baby, got paid another lot of maternity leave and i can stay off work till november this year when my youngest turns 2. So i've been away from work for almost 5yrs, got 3 x lots of maternity leave paid and my job is still there for me. Managers aint happy because they've been unable to secure decent replacements for me during my time off because they're only able to offer people contract positions because the permanent position still belongs to me.
I've just recently decided to go back 2 days a week and i rock up at 7:30am and leave at 4pm and in that, i have TOIL up my sleeve. When i accumulate a total of 7.5hrs of TOIL i can take a day off. So some weeks i'm only in the office 1 day because the other day is taken as TOIL. Working hours are flexible, we have Mothers in our office that have negotiated their working hours so they're able to leave at 3pm to pick up their kids from school. Or some even are able to work from home (depends on your job) for a couple of the days.
I can't complain really, the only thing they could do to improve things is offer on-site child care!
as "fantastic" as that sounds i think it is completely ridiculous. you have been paid 54 weeks pay and had a position held for you since 2007. not only are they now out 54 weeks but there will be the natural inefficiencies with not having someone fulltime on that role in the meantime as well as having to pay higher contract rates for the people who have worked in that role over the last 5 years
people talk about a bloated and inefficient public sector, the above example perfectly illustrates it
as "fantastic" as that sounds i think it is completely ridiculous. you have been paid 54 weeks pay and had a position held for you since 2007. not only are they now out 54 weeks but there will be the natural inefficiencies with not having someone fulltime on that role in the meantime as well as having to pay higher contract rates for the people who have worked in that role over the last 5 years
people talk about a bloated and inefficient public sector, the above example perfectly illustrates it
not having a go at you personally, i just think it is stupidity of the highest order. how much money is wasted each and every year on policies like this?
Perhaps I'm out of touch... I didn't realise paid maternity leave had been going for the last 5 - 6 years (longer if there was the compulsory 12 month leave in between) .
paid maternity leave used to be fairly standard, I think but gradually got rolled back. when I started at the job where I took maternity leave (1995 or so), they offered paid leave. but then they stopped it for new employees. I think there were anumber of businesses in the same boat