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Employer attitudes to carer's leave
If you are a working parent and have to take unexpected or necessary leave to take care of a child, what is your employer's response?
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Marie Stuart
State Social Inclusion Coordinator QLD for Goodstart Early Learning
Marie Stuart did post school study in Brazil, and returned to do a dual degree at Macquarie University in early childhood teaching and psychology. She returned to university to study further in early childhood and family therapy. Working in the area of early childhood intervention since 1983, she started post...

Sharon McKinlay
Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning

Adrienne McGhie
National Manager Occupational Therapy, Goodstart Early Learning

Tiffany Noble
Senior Speech Pathologist, Goodstart Early Learning

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