<aside> 👉🏾 EEO policies and procedures are important. Employees should be able to easily find out what they are, and managers should know the process. To keep up to date, refer to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s Employers webpage at humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/employers. The Commission offers training in equal opportunity policies and practices as well as consultancy services. Training can be provided onsite or at the Commission premises. Call 1300 292 153 for more information or visit humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/training.
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This policy applies to all staff including contractors and covers all work-related functions and activities including external training courses sponsored by {Business Name}.
It also applies for all recruitment, selection and promotion decisions.
The objective of {Business Name}’s Equal Opportunity Policy is to improve business success by:
{Business Name} is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying. Behaviour that constitutes discrimination, sexual harassment or bullying will not be tolerated and will lead to action being taken, which may include dismissal.
For the purposes of this policy, the following definitions apply:
Direct discrimination occurs when someone is treated unfavourably because of a personal characteristic that is protected under Victorian law.
Indirect Discrimination occurs when a rule seems neutral, but has a discriminatory impact on certain people. For example a minimum height requirement of 6 foot for a particular job might be applied equally to men and women, but would indirectly discriminate on the basis of sex, as women tend to be shorter than men.
Sexual harassment includes unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature in circumstances in which it could reasonably be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated a reasonable person, having regard to all the circumstances, would have anticipated that the person harassed would be offended, humiliated or intimidated.
Workplace bullying may include behaviour that is directed toward an employee, or group of employees, that creates a risk to health and safety e.g. physical and/or verbal abuse, excluding or isolating individuals; or giving impossible tasks.
{Business Name} provides equal opportunity in employment to people without discrimination based on a personal characteristic protected under state and federal equal opportunity legislation.
Under State legislation they include: