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Paid Parental Leave Draft report Presentation to Melbourne Paid Parental Leave Forum 5 November 2008. Where we are now. Around 285 000 babies born in 2007 175 000 to women in paid work prior to birth - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Productivity Commission
Paid Parental LeaveDraft report
Presentation to Melbourne
Paid Parental Leave Forum
5 November 2008
Productivity Commission 2
Where we are now
• Around 285 000 babies born in 2007– 175 000 to women in paid work prior to birth
• 53% of female employees and 50% of male employees have access to employer-provided paid parental leave*
Mothers returning to paid work after childbirth
3 months 6 months 12 months
All mothers 11% 20% 41%
Mothers employed prior to birth 15% 29% 58%
*Using adjusted ABS figures
Productivity Commission 3
Objectives
• Child and maternal health and wellbeing
– the importance of a 6 to 9 months timeframe
• Labour market attachment
– Lifetime perspective
• Work/life balance and gender equity
– The ‘sort of society we would like to live in’
Productivity Commission 4
Design features follow from objectives
Child & maternal welfare
Work/life balance& gender equity
Labour forceattachment
Adequate duration & payment
More than welfare for most
Employment-relatedmeasure
Includes provisions forboth genders
SuperannuationEmployment-based
eligibility test
Link to NationalEmployment Standards
Employers as‘paymasters’
Additionality
Productivity Commission 5
Key features of the Commission’s scheme
• Duration– 18 weeks parental plus 2 weeks paternity
• How much?– Minimum wage ($544 per week) regardless of
pre-birth income – taxable and included for means tests
– No access to baby bonus or FTB(B) while on leave
– Super at 9% of minimum wage or actual wage if lower – for subset only
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Key features of the Commission’s scheme
• Who pays?– Government funds cash payments– Employers to fund capped super – Employers act as ‘paymasters’
• Eligibility– Work for average of 10 hours per week over 12
months before birth (incl. self-employed)– Extra conditions for super
• Non-eligible parents– Existing entitlements plus paternity leave plus
removal of means test on baby bonus
Productivity Commission 7
From the employee perspective
Have you given birth?
Have you worked for the last 12 months?
For an average of 10 hours a week?
With multiple employers?
With one employer? $543.78 for 18 weeks plus super
plus job return guarantee
$543.78 for 18 weeks
Productivity Commission 8
From the employer perspective
Has an employee given birth?
Has she worked for you for the last 12 months?
For an average of 10 hours a week?
Act as paymaster for government
Pay super for 18 weeks
Job returnguarantee
Productivity Commission 9
Eligibility
Employed mothers*
Not employed
Eligible for statutory paid parental leave 139,000
(79% share of employed)
Eligible for super contributions 118,000 (85% share of those eligible for paid
parental leave)
Insufficient workplace attachment 36,000 (20%
share of employed)
176,000
109,000
Mothers of newborn children
* Includes self-employed & contractors
Productivity Commission 10
How much per family?
Paid parental
leave
Paid paternity
leave
Total
$ $ $
Government contribution 9 788 1 088 10 876
Employer contribution 881 98 979
Total 10 669 1 185 11 854
Maximum paymentsa
a Benefits are all in gross terms (ignoring tax effects and offsets against social transfers) and are for a parental leave period of 18 weeks and paternity leave of 2 weeks
Productivity Commission 11
Business impacts
• Super contributions– capped & at 9%– additional eligibility tests– maximum cost 3% of annual salary
• Many small employers would face no costs in a given year– only face costs when person on leave– average 1.1% of employees would be on maternity leave per year
for businesses employing less than 20 people
• Paymaster function for some employers• Costs for business of overall obligations lowered by using
– quick reimbursement (maybe PAYG withholding)– existing administrative arrangements– better leave notices
• They will get retention benefits
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How much will it cost each year?
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
Gross costs less Offsets = Net costs
Cost categories
$ m
illion
Parental leave $1,336m
Paternity leave $61m
Superannuation contributions $106m
Baby bonus savings $670m
Tax & other welfaresavings $307m
Net governmentcontributions
$452m
Net businesscontribution $74m
Net schemecost $527m
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Funding by weeks
0
$200
$400
$600
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18Weeks of parental leave
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(a) Includes the net funding of paternity leave and tax deductions for employers' superannuation contributions
$543.78
Baby bonus savings Tax & budget savings
Additional cash cost to government
Net business super contribution
Other government contribution (a)
Productivity Commission 14
Gross costs of two models
Commissionscheme
‘Top up’ model
Government $m 1 398 1 398
Business $m 106 1 225
Total costs $m 1 504 2 623
Business share Share 7% 47%
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A case study of a small business
PC scheme Top up model
Cost to employer of leave for one employee earning $65 000
$881 $13 856
Share of annual wage 1.4% 21.3%
Business gross revenue ------- $1 million -------
Net profit before policy change ------- $42 000 -------
Net profit after policy change $41 383 $32 301
% change in net profit -1.5% -23.0%
Business with 4 employees
*Based on a business with a gross margin of 6% and a tax rate of 30%
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This is a draft report, so we will be seeking feedback
• Mid October: Background appendices on web• Mid October: Informal consultations with participants• 10 November: Hearings commence• 14 November: Closing date for submissions• End February: Final report to government
For hard copies of the draft report email:[email protected]
Productivity Commission
Paid Parental LeaveDraft report
Presentation to Melbourne
Paid Parental Leave Forum
5 November 2008