The Catholic News website reports today (July 4, 2012) that church agencies have welcomed the federal government's decision to provide fathers with two weeks' paid paternity leave at the rate of $606-a-week minimum wage from January next year.
Anthony Farley -- executive director of the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations -- says the paid paternity leave "is a great benefit for families, allowing for the father to provide support over the important initial period at home with a new child, without placing unmanageable burdens on the employer."
The paternity pay will be available to eligible fathers who earned less than $150,000 in the previous financial year.
To be eligible, the father must have worked at least 330 hours -- or more than one day a week -- in 10 of the 13 months before the birth.
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