- CPD Points: 1 [PM] [PS]
- Price: $89.00
- Area: Anti-discrimination; People Skills & Management; Workplace Relations
- Delivered: August 2024
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Description
This session, presented into the 2024 Employment Law Conference, by Dr Robin Banks, Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner from 2010-2017. Dr Banks discusses racism, ageism and disability discrimination in the workplace. This session will consider the current state and federal law protections against employment discrimination in respect of race, disability and age, identifying how such discrimination is known to manifest and how it is experienced. It will also focus on what employers can do to prevent its occurrence and how lawyers can assist their clients to avoid these forms of discrimination.
Key takeaways
- Creating inclusive workplace practices can significantly reduce the risk of discrimination affecting people on the basis of their race, disability or age.
- Discrimination against these groups can take very different forms and, while often subtle, these forms create hostile work environments for members of these groups and undermine positive and productive workplace cultures.
- Employers can, with appropriate support from lawyers and others, do much more to reduce the risk of discrimination and its negative impacts.
- CPD Points: 1 [PM] [PS]
- Price: $89.00
- Area: Anti-discrimination; People Skills & Management; Workplace Relations
- Delivered: August 2024
Digital Content
Recording
Slides (16 pages)
To purchase login below
Description
This session, presented into the 2024 Employment Law Conference, by Dr Robin Banks, Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner from 2010-2017. Dr Banks discusses racism, ageism and disability discrimination in the workplace. This session will consider the current state and federal law protections against employment discrimination in respect of race, disability and age, identifying how such discrimination is known to manifest and how it is experienced. It will also focus on what employers can do to prevent its occurrence and how lawyers can assist their clients to avoid these forms of discrimination.
Key takeaways
- Creating inclusive workplace practices can significantly reduce the risk of discrimination affecting people on the basis of their race, disability or age.
- Discrimination against these groups can take very different forms and, while often subtle, these forms create hostile work environments for members of these groups and undermine positive and productive workplace cultures.
- Employers can, with appropriate support from lawyers and others, do much more to reduce the risk of discrimination and its negative impacts.
Robin Banks, University of Tasmania
About the Presenter:
Ms Robin Banks, University of Tasmania. Ms Banks holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of NSW and PhD in law from the University of Tasmania. In 2000 she was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia. Robin grew up in Tasmania and has worked in government, private and not-for-profit legal roles, including most recently as Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner (2010-17). Immediately before returning to Tasmania to take up this statutory appointment, Robin held the position of CEO of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (NSW) and Director of the Public Interest Law Clearing House (NSW). Robin worked for a year with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (1999-2000) and was a lawyer then Senior Associate with the Sydney law firm, Henry Davis York (2000-2005). Robin has been involved in a broad range of human rights advocacy activities and has a strong background in disability rights in particular.
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