The Fragile X Victoria support group is holding a coffee morning in Frankston on Thursday 11th December 2008 at 10.30 am.

This is a good chance to meet or to catch up with other parents living with Fragile X in the family over a cuppa and in a relaxed setting.

From 1 September, changes to Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act (1995) came into place which give protection from discrimination to working parents and carers.

Under the amendments, it is unlawful for an employer to unreasonably refuse to accommodate a person’s responsibilities as a parent or carer. The changes apply in relation to job applicants and existing employees, as well as to to contract workers and partnerships.

The Act provides some examples of how these new rules can be implemented which include

• working part-time
• job sharing
• working from home for all or part of the working week.
• starting and finishing earlier or later

Update May 2011

This will be replaced by the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 in August 2011