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Sue Ingram

Political scientist

Jun 21, 2026

11:07
This is where you need
11:10
to clarify what that is.
11:13
And it's hard because technically speaking, when a small child is home from nursery, it's not sickness because they're not sick.
11:23
The employee's not sick.
11:25
It should be taken as holiday or unpaid leave.
11:30
The difficulty is that the staying at home sits on the mum.
11:36
If there is a partner involved, they don't take any time off their work because the child is sick.

26 MINS LATER

37:37
Yeah.

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