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A NSW court case made an example that NSW law actually conflicted with federal law on paid parental leave rights and entitlements. [145] Since 1 October 2022, reforms to the NSW parental leave rights and entitlements removed the archaic "breadwinner" and "homemaker" titles – to be inline with federal legislation. [146]
The right to access a toilet is a basic human need. [1] Unless both the employee and employer agree to compensate the employee on rest breaks an employer cannot take away the worker's right to access a toilet facility while working. There is limited information on the rights workers have to access public toilets among the world's legal systems.
Parts of the natural bushland of Sydney's North Head have historically served as a meeting place for gay men in Sydney.. In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men, where sexual acts occur.
Following the issuance of the report, the United Nations urged all countries which had not yet done so to enact laws protecting basic LGBT rights. [15] [16] A 2022 study found that LGBT rights (as measured by ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index) were correlated with less HIV/AIDS incidence among gay and bisexual men independently of risky sexual ...
A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity. Bathroom bills affect access to sex-segregated public facilities for an individual based on a determination of their sex as defined in some specific way, such as their sex as assigned at birth, their sex as listed on their birth certificate, or the sex that ...
The National Public Toilet Map is part of the Australian government's National Continence Management Strategy (NCMS). The map allows more Australians with urinary and fecal incontinence problems to live and participate in their communities with dignity and confidence, by making it easier for them to find information about the location of public toilets [citation needed].
Potty parity is equal or equitable provision of public toilet facilities for females and males within a public space. Parity can be defined by equal floorspace or by number of fixtures within the washrooms, sometimes adjusted for the longer average time taken and more frequent visits to the washroom for females, among other factors.
Segregation of toilet facilities by race was outlawed in the United States by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Provision of disabled-access facilities was mandated in federal buildings by the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and in private buildings by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. [3]