Submission on Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010 13 May, 2010 | Submission The ACTU has expressed its intention to pursue the improvements we seek to the scheme over time, both through bargaining and lobbying for future legislative reform to achieve: Payment of superannuation on paid parental leave to redress the inequity in retirement savings for women who have taken time out of the paid workforce in order to have and care for children; Provision of paid paternity leave or secondary carer’s leave to encourage a pattern of more equitable distribution of caring responsibilities within families; Twenty-six weeks’ paid parental leave, as recommended by various health organisations as the optimal period of paid leave in terms of child and maternal health; Employer ‘top up’ of the government paid parental leave payments to full income replacement level. Download File: Paid Parental Leave submission