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 …
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 …
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 …
(From left to right) Tom Harley, CEO of Sydney Swans; Emily Caska, Down Syndrome NSW CEO; Ellen Hester, Down Syndrome NSW Employee; Carly Wilkinson, Principal – Digital and Innovation – at Symmetra; Mon Schafter, Twenty10 Co-chair; Craig Foster, Addi Road …
Diversity and inclusion have become the DNA of any business that has succeeded in creating a safe and diverse workplace for all employees. Many leaders have taken a renewed approach to establishing diversity and inclusion mechanisms in their workplaces, …
June ushers in another Pride Month and it opens at a tumultuous time for LGBTQIA+ rights all over the world. The sobering reality is that discriminatory actions and commentary continues to be common. legislation remain to threaten the safety of …
Inclusion in the workplace has increasingly gained well-deserved global attention in recent years. Yet some leaders remain stubbornly and possibly intentionally ignorant of the importance of this issue both from a performance upside and risk downside perspective. For most it …
December 10th is Human Rights Day and is also the anniversary of the signing of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Australia stands proud as one of the principal drafters of the Declaration. HV Evatt of Australia chaired the …
For many employers, the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion start and end with those they identify as formal employees. This is no longer an economically viable nor a morally consistent position for employers to take in the 21st century. …
Workplace incivility is on the rise and employers need to take note. Aligned with this, Symmetra is experiencing an increase in requests to address it. Workplace incivility does not generally consist of yelling and like behaviour. It is defined as “low intensity …
Is subsidising frozen human eggs for storage or helping with IVF treatments a genuine boon for workplace diversity and female employee recruitment and retention? Probably the answer is a qualified – yes. The “fertility benefit” is no longer an imaginative …
Diversity has just breached another long-standing and socially destructive barrier. This time it is a famous Comic-book publication which has cast aside the notion that only white alpha males can be seen as heroes. The son of Superman, Jonathan Kent, …