- Preliminaries: Cover, Copyright and publication detail, Opportunity for comment, Terms of reference, Acknowledgements, Contents
- Executive summary
- Draft findings, draft recommendations and information requests
- 1. Background to this inquiry
- What we have been asked to do
- 2. Informal care for older people
- What do we know about informal carers of older people?
- The care and support provided by informal carers
- Providing care affects many aspects of carers' lives
- 3. Employment standards relevant to balancing work and care
- Use of workplace entitlements to balance work and care
- Adequacy of leave entitlements for supporting employees with caring responsibilities
- Flexible working arrangements
- 4. Our approach to entitlement design and assessment
- Potential objectives of an entitlement
- 5. Entitlement design choices
- Leave duration
- Notice periods
- Who should be eligible?
- 6. Assessing the potential effects of an entitlement
- How many employees would use an entitlement?
- Impacts on employees
- Impacts on care recipients
- Impacts on employers
- Impacts on taxpayers
- The long run costs are unlikely to be evenly shared across the economy
- Overall impact
- 7. An extended unpaid leave entitlement for other carers?
- 8. How else could carers of older people be supported?
- Financial support
- Access to formal care
- Easier access to flexible work
- Expanded definitions of caring relationships in the National Employment Standards?
- Other supports
- A. Public consultation
- References
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