AUSTRALIALABOR lawsCOVID-19 pandemicANTI-discrimination lawsWORK environmentIn 2020 and 2021 the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way we work. To help contain the virus employees made a mass migration from working in offices to working remotely from home, but this mass shift to working...
Workplace discrimination can be overt or subtle, targeting protected characteristics such as age, gender, race, or disability. Federal laws, including Title VII, ADA, and the Equal Pay Act, protect employees from discrimination and ensure equal treatment. Document incidents, report to HR, and file...
Providing training as a result of a discrimination consent decree. Additional services Anti-harassment Training Interviewing and Hiring Practices Handling Employee Complaints Documentation Conducting Terminations Disability and Leave Issues Coaching and Counseling ...
Workplace reform impacting Australia's higher education sector Insight Foreign bribery risks in Australia's tertiary education sector Technical update New protections for equal access under Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws Technical update Queensland overhauls discrimination laws, introduces new positive du...
work of equal value. Duty of the executive and judicial arms of government is to promote equal opportunities in employment for all (men, women, youth, elderly, migrants, etc.) Employer to give equal opportunity in employment and strive to eliminate discrimination in any employment policy or ...
The culture of academe and academics has been characterized as hostile and cruel with campuses described as “rife” with bullying. In this chapter, extant global research on bullying in academe is reviewed to assess the validity of these characterizatio
If someone can establish that the bullying they’ve experienced is motivated by factors such as race, sex, religion, or disability, then they may have legal recourse under employment discrimination laws that prohibit harassment on the basis of those protected categories. But as we know, many ...
Further, public support for trans individuals and anti-discrimination laws protecting this group are lower than the analogous support and laws toward LGB people (Lewis et al. 2017). As a result, trans employees are more frequent targets of discrimination and bullying in the workplace than ...
Under theSex Discrimination Act 1984, gender identity has been a legally protected ground since 2013. However, the Australian Human Rights Commission has described this as the first case of its kind to go before the court. This case highlights the need to be cautious in Australia before implemen...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued four documents related to protecting employees against disability discrimination as a part of anti-discriminatory laws. The US Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) aims to increase the employment opportun...