An Employment Right- Standard Provisions for Working Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
Resources - Author: Anna Lee Fos-Tuvera, Jane Aeberhard-Hodges, Ludo McFerran / Year: 2018
In many countries the majority of those experiencing domestic violence are in paid employment. Maintaining employment and economic independence is a critical pathway to reducing the impacts of domestic violence of homelessness and unemployment. Yet, the workplace is not firmly part of an integrated global response to reducing the...
Read MoreEngaging Employers in Apprenticeship Opportunities: Making it Happen Locally
Resources - Author: Angela Attrey, Jonathan Barr, Paul Comyn / Year: 2017
This joint OECD-ILO publication provides guidance on how local and regional governments can foster business-education partnerships in apprenticeship programmes and other types of work-based learning, drawing on case studies across nine countries. There has been increasing interest in apprenticeships which combine on the job training with classroom-based study, providing...
Read MoreAre active labour market policies effectivein activating and integrating low-skilledindividuals? An international comparison
Resources - Author: Verónica Escudero / Year: 2018
This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross-country and time series database for 31 advanced countries during the period 1985 – 2010. The analysis includes aspects of the delivery system to see how the performance of ALMPs...
Read MoreAccess to Leave from Work for Domestic Violence in Australia
Legal depository - Country: Australia / Body: Fair Work Commission / Year: 2017
Law Four-yearly review of modern awards under section 156 of the federal Fair Work Act 2009. Reasoning Building on the success of collective bargaining for clauses supporting workers facing domestic and gender-based violence (GBV), and concerned for female and male workers not covered by agreements, the Australian Council of...
Read MorePre-migration and post-migration factors associated with mental health in humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation eff ect of post-migration stressors: findings from the first wave data of the BNLA cohort study
Resources - Author: Andre Renzaho, Brian J. Hall, Li Ling, Wen Chen / Year: 2017
Background The process of becoming a humanitarian migrant is potentially damaging to mental health. We examined the association between pre-migration and post-migration potentially traumatic events and stressors and mental health, and assessed the moderating eff ect of post-migration stressors in humanitarian migrants in Australia. Methods In this study, we...
Read MoreAn International Labour Organization Instrument on Violence against Women and Men at Work: the Australian influence
Resources - Author: Jane Aeberhard-Hodges, Ludo McFerran / Year: 2017
Violence in and out of work, both domestic violence and sexual harassment, are violations of human rights and impact heavily in the workplace. All forms of violence result in a high cost for workers, employers and society in general, in lost time, injuries, complaints, staff turnover, loss of skills,...
Read MoreThe Political Economy of Income Distribution: industry level evidence from 14 OECD countries
Resources - Author: Alexander Guschanski, Özlem Onaran / Year: 2017
This article presents an econometric estimation of the determinants of the wage share, using sectoral data for 14 OECD countries for the period 1970- 2014. We present estimations for the wage share of high- and low-skilled workers and within manufacturing and service industries. We augment sectoral data with input-output...
Read MoreBuilding the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in rich countries
Resources - Author: Chris Brazier / Year: 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals have set ambitious targets that apply to rich countries as well as poor. The most telling sign of a nation’s progress towards meeting those goals will be how well it meets the needs of its children. This Report Card offers an assessment of child well-being...
Read MoreIncome Inequality and Labour Income Share in G20 Countries: Trends, impacts and causes
Resources - Year: 2015
The Government of Turkey has made inclusiveness one of the three priorities of its G20 Presidency. This builds upon the G20 Leaders’ commitment in 2014 to “…support development and inclusive growth, and help to reduce inequality and poverty.” Indeed, the inclusiveness of growth, and the related issues of...
Read MoreInvesting in the Care Economy: A gender analysis of employment stimulus in seven OECD countries
Resources - Author: Diane Perrons, Jerome De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, Zofia Łapniewska / Year: 2016
Increasing public investment would stimulate employment and economic growth and provide a more effective means of moving out of recession than current austerity policies. This report makes such a case for public investment that is in social as well as physical infrastructure. By social infrastructure we mean education, care...
Read MoreWWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability
Resources - Year: 2016
Over two million women and girls with disability live in Australia – that’s approximately 20 percent of all women and girls. Like everyone else, we all have different lives and experiences. We also have different personal experiences of disability. As a group, however, women and girls with disability experience...
Read MoreSocial Security Act 1991
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 (No. 80)
Legal depository - Country: Australia / Year: 1999
Here, the Australian government provides a compilation of the Student Assistance Act 1973, showing the text of the law as amended and in force on 8 December 2014. The notes at the end of this compilation include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the...
Read MoreStudent Assistance Act 1973 (No. 155)
Legal depository - Country: Australia / Year: 1973
Here, the Australian government provides a compilation of the Student Assistance Act 1973, showing the text of the law as amended and in force on 25 March 2015. The notes at the end of this compilation include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the...
Read MorePaid Parental Leave Act 2010 (No. 104)
Legal depository - Country: Australia / Year: 2010
The objective of this act is to establish regulations for the provision of financial support to primary carers of newborns and newly adopted children. This financial support is intended for primary carers who are in the work force and is intended to complement and/or supplement existing entitlements to paid...
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