Assessment 1 – EEO (2)

Assessment 1

Individual Project:

Critical Analysis

Diversity Policy, Equal Employment Opportunity & Discrimination Acts

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

Weaknesses

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:

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

Employees’ rights relating to Equal Employment Opportunity include:

Employee’s responsibilities relating to Equal Employment Opportunity include:

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:

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 between the two workers is gender, which cannot affect the salaries of the workers.

Other examples of Sex discrimination that are more severe are:

All these examples will be severe and may even result…