ACT Public Servants Offered Significant Pay Raise & Parental Leave Expansion: The Australian Capital Territory government has proposed a new pay deal for public servants, including a raise of over seven and a half percent over three years and expanded parental leave benefits. The offer, made during enterprise bargaining talks, includes a three percent raise in the first year, two and a half percent in the second, and two percent in the third, along with a superannuation increase. Parental leave benefits have been significantly expanded, with non-birthing parents now eligible for eighteen weeks of paid leave, and birthing parents continuing to receive twenty-four weeks. The government has also proposed paid leave for premature births and doubled reproductive leave to ten days a year. These changes aim to support gender equity and close the gender pay gap. If accepted, the offer will bring substantial changes for ACT public servants.

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