Posts tagged "childcare"

Childcare costs are out of control in Australia and one firm wants to do something about it by offering a $10,000 childcare subsidiary to employees.

Small businesses in Queensland will face $650 energy bill rebates, thanks to a new $1.48 billion relief package at the heart of the sunshine state's 2023-2024 budget.

Here are the small business measures included in Labor's 2022 federal budget, and five that are missing.

Next month’s budget will include $10.8 million to fund the inquiry, with government sources emphasising the probe would be very rigorous and operators would be put on the spot to explain high fees.

Companies that offer parental leave packages could disadvantage themselves if they don't also provide childcare subsidies, Stake says.

Early childhood workers and educators have hard complex jobs that are incredibly important, writes Christina Hobbs, co-founder of Verve Super.

An early theme of this week's Jobs Summit has been breaking down gender barriers and increasing the participation of women in the workforce.

Australia’s top economists are divided about how to tackle ballooning inflation of 6.1% that’s forecast to climb to a three-decade high of 7.75% by the end of the year.

Australia's current 18-week scheme has barely changed since its introduction 12 years ago, and it remains ones of the least generous across OECD countries.

The arrival of buy now, pay later services to childcare centres shows just how broken the childcare system really is, writes Angela Priestley.

A recent report by the Grattan Institute revealed Australian women have suffered a “triple whammy” of job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $1000 a month childcare payment is one of a number of policies that emerged after PEXA actively sought to ask people about the pain points they were experiencing.