Chapter 12
A Journey through Australian Workplace Rights and EEO
In This Chapter
Working out what unlawful discrimination means
Treading carefully around workplace rights
Creating your workplace strategy
Respecting privacy and personal information
Homing in on suitability, not disability
A ccording to the Australian Macquarie dictionary, to discriminate means (1) to make a distinction, as in favour of or against a person or thing: to discriminate against a minority and (2) to note or observe a difference; distinguish accurately: to discriminate between things.
Australian governments have implemented anti-discrimination law over many years to protect people from discrimination and harassment in their employment, their education and in other aspects of public and private life. However, not all actions that might be described as discriminatory are unlawful. In this chapter I explain what is meant by unlawful discrimination at work and discuss how the national, state and territory laws ...
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