Category: Latest Insights From Symmetra

Dr. Bìjna Kotak Dasanì MBE, FRSA Operating Partner, Symmetra praised for her professional journey & impact by HRH Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace

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Dr. Bijna a distinguished former Banker turned Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur is a highly respected figure for her efforts in leading diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) across the financial services industry. She was appointed Member of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire (MBE) by Her Royal Highness Princess Royal, Princess Anne, at a …

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Sydney Embraces People with Disabilities

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Sydney—take a bow! The Valuable 500 has just voted our city the 9th most accessible in the world for people with disabilities. Valuable 500 is an association formed at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos in 2019 to which 500 of the world’s most influential CEOs belong and whose objective is to unlock the potential …

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Nick Cater attacks DEI programs in The Australian- A Response

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Journalist Nick Cater recently penned an article in The Australian which was little more than an all-out attack on workplace DEI programs. According to Mr Cater these programs are calculated to disempower and disadvantage white males in the Australian workforce. The proposition accepted so glibly by Mr. Cater, that without the constraints of DEI policies …

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A Court Recognizes Unconscious Bias in Sex Discrimination Claim

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A recent ruling of the Victorian court of Appeal in the case of Austin Health v Tsikos marks a significant advance in the appreciation of how unconscious biases can serve to activate and embed discrimination in the workplace. The complainant, Christina Tsikos had been employed as an orthotist/ prosthetist by Austin Health in 2009. The …

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Can AI counter discrimination in recruitment?

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The harms of discriminatory hiring practices  Discrimination in recruitment is a long-standing problem that adversely affects women and other protected groups, but also ultimately impacts organisations negatively when discrimination results in talented people being overlooked for jobs. Sometimes the discrimination flows from deliberate and conscious decisions to hire only from certain groups or to exclude …

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Adopting the Voice will make Australia more Equal

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Recently Barnaby Joyce in a radio interview, claimed that incorporating the Voice in the Australian Constitution would be contrary to the principle of equality. It would give special and distinctive status to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. We disagree with this proposition most emphatically. The stance of Symmetra is that giving a Voice to Indigenous …

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Employers need to Grasp the Nettle now on Sexual Harassment

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  As we discussed in our two previous posts, employers, large and small, in Australia must now contend with an entirely new set of legal obligations when trying to render their workplaces free of sexual harassment. Firstly, the principal duty falls squarely on the employer who must act proactively and systematically to take steps to …

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How the Laws around Sexual Harassment have changed

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The legislative landscape surrounding workplace sexual harassment and violence in Australia has undergone a profound change recently. The change is reflected in two principal areas: The first area concerns who bears the primary legal responsibility for addressing sexual harassment and what processes should be implemented and followed to combat it; The second area concerns classifying …

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A new dawn to reduce sexual harassment in the Australian workplace

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Australia was at one time (in the 1970s and 1980s) lauded as being in the forefront of tackling the scourge of sexual harassment in the workplace and elsewhere. Since then, it has fallen behind. Sexual harassment has remained a perennial and intractable problem in the Australian workplace – as it has in other countries. Until …

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