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Paid maternity leave offers 'little benefit' to community, Queensland's Mareeba Shire Council says

A regional council has lost its battle to withhold paid maternity leave after the union took the fight to the industrial commission.

Staff at Mareeba Shire Council in Far North Queensland will retain the right to 10 weeks maternity leave at full pay after giving birth, or 20 weeks at half pay, after the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission's full bench ruled in their union's favour. 

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