HREOC have prepared a collection of fact sheets for use in the workplace.

Click on the links below for further info:

Age Discrimination

Disability Discrimination and Harassment

Race Discrimination and Racial Hatred

Sex Discrimination and Harassment

Workplace Bullying

Best practice guidelines

There are many good reasons why following federal/state anti-discrimination law is both good practice and good for business.

To assist employers in the elimination of discrimination and harassment in the workplace, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has developed the following best practice guidelines to help ensure that:

• everyone is able to work more productively without the distraction of harassing or discriminating behaviour.
• teamwork and a more positive work environment is encouraged.
• linking the diversity in the workplace to potential markets with a similar diversity to your workplace.
• avoiding potentially damaging court actions involving alleged harassing or discriminatory behaviour.
• ensuring the best person gets the job.
• ensuring the best person receives training and promotion.

If you are an employer who relies upon stereotyped assumptions about what people of particular races, genders and ages, and people with a disability, can do and can't do, you are not only losing in terms of productivity and creativity, you may also be breaking anti-discrimination law.

The following best practice guidelines will assist in developing:

• recruitment and selection of the best person for the job
• a productive and harmonious workplace environment.