Workplace Diversity Tasks 2022

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Task A
List and explain the objectives of anti-age discrimination legislation within a workplace.
The main aim of the anti age discrimination legislation in the workplaces is to protect the old
employees from receiving any discrimination regarding their age in the workplace. The
employees are known to face multiple discrimination in the workplace such as in the process of
recruitment, selection, workplace work and conditions and dismissal. The legislation also makes
it sure that the old employees are made aware of the rights they have and receive in the
workplace. According to the authors Bullock, Brestovanský & Lenč (2015) there are various
types of laws which have been laws issued regarding the anti age discrimination.
List the current legislation in relation to racial discrimination and outline the key features
as they relate to employment.
 Age discrimination Act 2004 - The Age discrimination Act 2004 was issued by the
Parliament of Australia which prohibits the age of discrimination in various types of
areas such as employment, education, accommodation in the provision of goods and
services. The exemptions which are provided in this case widely include religious
organizations, charitable organizations, and positive discrimination (Cobb 2017).
 Racial and religious tolerance Act 2001 - The Racial and religious tolerance Act 2001was
passed by the Parliament of Victoria, Australia. The act does not tolerates any kind of
incite hatred, serious contempt, serious ridicule to a person who is working in the same

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organization just because of the race, skin color or the religion they belong to (Cotter
2016).
 Racial Discrimination Act 1975 - – The act was passed by the Australian Human Rights
Constitution in the year 1975 by the president after investigating the problems which
were occurring in the country (De Schutter 2019).
Outline the key features of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 as they relate to
employment and explain where you can access this information.
The features which are offered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 are given below:
 Employment – Getting a certain job which the disabled person will be able to do easily,
training them and following the promotion in the job (Schipani, Milliken & Kneeland
2018).
 Education – The disabled person should get proper type of education where the person
should be well educated about the job roles in public and as well as college or university.
 Accommodation – The disabled person should be able to accommodate easily in any
place where they are staying. This might be a house or a unit (Triana, Jayasinghe &
Pieper 2015).
 Accessing the public places – the disabled person should be able to access the public
properties very easily and without any ease. They should be led to use the medium of
transport facilities that are available (Ford, Pickvance & Sawney 2018).

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List the current legislation in relation to sex discrimination and outline the
key features as they relate to employment.
 Equality act 2010 describes that the person cannot be discriminated under the act no
matter which sex the person belongs to, or if the other person thinks of the other sex.
According to the act those person who are in love with the same sex are protected
(Engstrom 2018).
 Sex Discrimination Act 1984 is an act which was released by the parliament of Australia
which prohibits the discrimination on the basis of sex, marital relationship status or the
actual or potential pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender biasness is an offence under
the law.
 Equal Pay Act 2017 states that the act will be protecting the men and women who are
known to perform the equal amount of work under the same umbrella can perform the
work under equal work effort from the wage discrimination based on sex.
List the current legislation in relation to equal opportunity and outline the key
features as they relate to employment.
 Equal Opportunity Act 2017 defines that people should get equal opportunity regardless
of the religion, sex, color and national origin. It also includes the employees, job
applicants, and contractors thus aiming to help the people who are associated with these
things(Mishra & Mishra 2015).
 The law discriminates the characteristics which are falling under the personal
characteristics of Equal Opportunity Act 1965.