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Career Revive Initiative for Regional Women--supporting women to continue their careers after caring-related breaks

To facilitate women in regional areas to transition back into the workforce following a caring-related break, by:

(a) providing assistance to specific employers in regional areas to identify barriers in their workplaces to women returning to the workforce and to develop employer action plans to address those barriers; and

(b) funding the development of publicly available resources to guide other employers to take the actions referred to in paragraph (a); and

(c) engaging an employer peak body or business chamber to promote the Career Revive Initiative and encourage employers to take steps to assist women to return to work, including those steps identified in the publicly available resources referred to in paragraph (b).

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:

(a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services; or

(b) to meet Australia's obligations under one or more of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, particularly Articles 1, 2, 3, 11 and 14;

(ii) the International Labour Organization's Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;

(iii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6.