New Government Maternity leave sheme- what does it mean for teachers

[AliBaby]

It is a fantastic scheme and I would think that whether or not I was pregnant or not. It is important that mums are allowed to stay at home with their babies and I will be sad to go back to work when I have to.
I earn 70% of the income as well as my partner has his own mechanic business and we dont earn alot from that as so much goes into the business. He also doesnt get holiday or sick pay because then there is no one to do the work. We just have to close shop. If we waited until we could afford kids we would be waiting forever.

[sakoon]

anyone found out any more information about this? im due in march, hope i get it

[Muppity]

It is only a proposal at this stage.

Realistically there won't be anything more said officially about this until budget time next year (about mid-March) and anything that they do will come into effect 1 July next year at the earliest but it is likely that it will take much longer than that to get it all sorted out (and work out how to pay for it - specially after they are spending so much on the stimulus package now)

So people who are due before July next year are very unlikely to get anything from this one (but will still get the $5000 if they are entitled to it)

[mrsmac]

It will be interesting to see if the NSW DET changes stuff with regards to mat leave in this lot of pay negotiations.