The union for early childhood teachers backs the campaign by activist shareholders to pressure G8 Education into funding paid parental leave for staff.
IEUA NSW/ACT Branch Secretary Carol Matthews said childcare providers such as G8 should provide staff with employer-paid parental leave to address the sector’s staff shortages and high turnover rates.
“A lack of employer-paid parental leave contributes to women’s economic inequality,” Matthews said. “And a lack of paid parental leave exacerbates the ‘motherhood penalty’, whereby women suffer a dramatic loss in earnings in the first years of parenthood.”
More than 91 per cent of the early childhood education and care workforce are women.
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