Discrimination Prevention for Employees

Course summary

Are your employees aware of the types of behaviour that are considered discriminatory?

Discrimination occurs when an employer takes adverse action against an employee or prospective employee because of a number of attributes including race, gender, age or religion. While discrimination laws differ between jurisdictions, the principles remain similar.

Breaches can incur heavy costs for organisations, including reputational damage, compensation orders, and high staff turnover.

Key modules

• The law
• Victimisation
• Defining discrimination
• Other ways to discriminate
• Areas of activity
• Discrimination at work
• Providing goods and services
• Direct and indirect discrimination
• Exceptions
• Providing special services
• Equal opportunity programs

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to understand:

• the legal definition of discrimination;
• what the protected characteristics under anti-discrimination laws are;
• what behaviour is considered discriminatory; and
• what exceptions apply.

Legislation covered

Australia: Age Discrimination Act 2004, Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986, Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

New Zealand: Human Rights Act 1993 and the Employment Relations Act 2000.