Australia鈥檚 Fair Work Act and the Transformation of Workplace Disability Discrimination LawUntil recently, Australian disability discrimination law was similar to that of the United States and much of the rest of the world: it defined disability relatively narrowly, its penalties for noncomplianc...
organizational culture and support efforts in religious diversity. Potential risks of workplace chaplaincy such as religious harassment, discrimination, and issues of confidentiality are mentioned but scarcely discussed. Regarding the political, economic, and social contexts of workplace chaplaincy, it woul...
Legislation in Kenya on Discrimination in the workplace The Employment Act, 2007 Equal pay for men & women for 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.) Emp...
Saloojee, A. (2014). Balancing academic freedom and freedom from discrimination in contested spaces, Chapter 10. In J. L. Turk (Ed.),Academic freedom in conflict: The struggle over free speech rights in the university. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company. ...
In the U.S., workplace bullying is considered discrimination or harassment when a person is bullied for reasons of race, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or belonging to another class. Workplace bullying laws In addition, 31 states have enacted the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB). The...
An unquiet mind in the workplace:1 mental illness and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 New Labour's recent 'Welfare to Work' policies encourage people with disabilities, where possible, to enter and participate in the workplace. The current policy of 'inclusion' is supported by the Disabil...
Tags: business ethics, CSR, discrimination, diversity, inclusion, wellness, work-life balance, workplace ethics What is the Relationship Between ‘Conscious Capitalism’, ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’, and ESG? 12/21/2023 Operationalizing CSR I have previously blogged about “Conscious Capitalism” and...
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...
Australia has also made significant inroads in improving legal protections for sexual and gender minorities in recent years. In 2013, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 was amended to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or intersex status ...
But what if, even in non-unionized work settings, employers had a contractual obligation — by mere existence of the employment relationship — to safeguard employees from mistreatment, including abuses such as discrimination, sexual harassment, and bullying? And what if that contractual obligation in...