| AIRC |
Australian Industrial Relations Commission |
| Commission |
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission |
| Conviction |
a conviction of an offence by a court of law |
| CrimTrac |
Commonwealth agency which provides information and investigative tools for policing services across Australia, including police record checking services |
| HREOC |
Act Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth) |
| ILO 111 |
International Labour Organisation Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention 1958 |
| inherent requirements |
the essential requirements of a particular job or position |
| National Police Certificate |
an official police record listing a person’s criminal history |
| police check |
the check undertaken by police services resulting in the issue of a police certificate |
| spent convictions |
old convictions determined to be ‘spent’ under spent conviction and offender rehabilitation laws and schemes |
| unfair dismissal laws |
industrial relations laws which provide protection against unfair dismissal from employment |
| unrecorded conviction |
a finding of guilt by a court of law where no conviction was recorded, usually an indication that the offence was not considered serious enough to record a conviction, taking into account the nature of the offence and the likely impact of the recorded conviction on the offender’s economic or social well-being |
