{"id":71644,"date":"2025-07-18T03:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71644\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:49:10","slug":"fair-work-slaps-down-australian-dads-work-from-home-request-to-help-care-for-school-aged-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71644\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Work slaps down Australian dad\u2019s work-from-home request to help care for school-aged kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>17 Jul, 2025 08:50 PM3 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"m-0\">Share this article<\/p>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none \">Copy Link<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none \">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none \">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Twitter\/X<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Reddit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The working dad wanted to keep his arrangement of working-from-home twice a week to help look after his children. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An Australian dad who tried to get his employer to let him work from home twice a week, to help care for his school-age children, has had his request denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The dad took his legal bid to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after attempts to reach a compromise with his<br \/>\n         employer failed.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"lTWfKsoYTTqlOTLWXm\" style=\"display:none\">Paul Collins, a technical specialist at global software company Intersystems Australia, sought the ability to work from home two days a week in order to help care for his school-aged children, aged 8 and 10. His application, filed in January, also said mentioned he needed better \u201cwork-life balance\u201d. His bid has not been successful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lTWfKsoYTTqlOTLWXm\" style=\"display:none\">His employer, Intersystems, operates an online record system in Australia known as TrakCare, used by healthcare providers to allow the sharing of health information between facilities and organisations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lTWfKsoYTTqlOTLWXm\" style=\"display:none\">The employee had previous been working remotely two days a week in late 2024, under a hybrid working model the company had adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 17 Jul, 2025 08:50 PM3 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[50113,64,13986,245,4760,50118,24779,6982,31699,381,1075,2198,316,420,251,43855,50117,50115,50112,447,50116,19191,67,132,68,2452,8066,50114],"class_list":{"0":"post-71644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-australian","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-care","11":"tag-children","12":"tag-dads","13":"tag-denied","14":"tag-down","15":"tag-employer","16":"tag-fair","17":"tag-for","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-help","20":"tag-home","21":"tag-jobs","22":"tag-kids","23":"tag-request","24":"tag-schoolage","25":"tag-schoolaged","26":"tag-slaps","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-tried","29":"tag-twice","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-week","34":"tag-work","35":"tag-workfromhome"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114872199621162815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}