APC DET EEO (3)

Critical Analysis of the DET Diversity Policy

The DET Diversity Policy is a set of rules and guidelines that have been created to attempt to reduce the amount of unfair treatment that is happening to the disadvantaged groups. This policy is only supporting the education organisations and the community.

Strengths

Committed

Understanding

Helps a lot of people

Brief

Easy to Understand

Effectiveness

This DET diversity policy is very effective because it prevents the act of discrimination in the Education and Community areas. Any offenses will be handled and appropriate consequences will be given.

The DET is committed to monitoring the diversity policy and making it successful.

This policy is very understanding of those who go through these discriminations and know how it feels to lose an opportunity because of discrimination. Because of this, the organisation feels strongly about the policy and wants to make it as effective as possible.

The DET diversity policy understands how the victims feel when they are discriminated.

This policy is great because there are large amounts of people that are affected by discrimination and miss a lot of opportunities because of it. This diversity policy will reduce the amount of missed opportunities in the education system and community.

Every victim of discrimination will be benefitted by this policy

Equal Employment Opportunity

This is a national and state law which covers all of Australia. These laws are made to make the workplace a more discrimination and harassment free workplace. An employer has the most responsibility to ensure that the workplace follows all these rules and regulations set by the Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

The Equal Employment Opportunity was created to ensure the following outcomes are achieved:

A diverse and effective workforce is established.

Better access for employees and better opportunities for participating in activities.

A workplace that practices and behaves in fair and reasonable ways.

Equal Employment Opportunity is designed to achieve these fair practices, including:

No discrimination in the workplace

No harassment in the workplace

No bias when making management decisions

The most suitable applicant is picked without other personal factors being taken into consideration.

Making sure that all employees get the facilities and training that is necessary

Ensuring that all social and cultural backgrounds are respected.

Employees’ rights relating to Equal Employment Opportunity include:

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relating to Equal Employment Opportunity include:

A workplace that does not contain an discrimination or harassment to anyone.

Are behaviours and practices are fair in the workplace

Selection and management decisions that are based on merits and qualities.

Suitable training and development programs that will increase effectiveness and efficiency

The access to benefits and special conditions are equal for all in the workplace

Employee’s responsibilities relating to Equal Employment Opportunity include:

To ensure that you are working at your best capabilities and give service that is satisfactory

Acknowledging and recognising the skills and capabilities of others in the workforce.

Preventing any harassment from getting out of hand.

Respect and accept all differences between people, culturally and characteristically.

Treat people in a fair and reasonable way that does not discriminate or harass them

Racial Discrimination

This is defined as the practice or action that discriminates against or offends a certain racial group. This racial group could be cultural, religious or even just people with the same skin colour.

Quoted from the United Nations, Racial discrimination can be defined as:

“The term “racial discrimination” shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.”

The following are examples of racial discrimination in the Workplace:

a worker receives harassment because he is of a different racial background

An applicant’s application is ignored because he is from a racial background that the employer does not prefer.

Any statement that will purposefully offend a certain racial group, this could be a video, written message, typed email or any other way or communication.

These are just some of the examples however racial discrimination can generally happen anytime and be done in countless ways. The ones that are that results in the most severe consequences are the ones that are deliberate, obvious and offensive.

Sex Discrimination

Sex discrimination usually occurs to girls only because of the old times when the discrimination against women was acceptable to an extent. Nowadays, there are many rules and regulations which state that gender discrimination is against the law and will result in severe consequences.

An example of a situation that is regarded as Sex discrimination is when a woman is not accepted a job because the employer believes that a women is not capable of doing the work. By Law, if the woman feels that she is capable of the job, the employer must ensure that this will not affect the decision.

Another common example is when a male employer earns more money than a female worker with the same position, experience and skillset. This is discrimination because the only difference…

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