you can be held legally responsible for someone else’s unlawful discrimination, harassment or victimisation 23 How you can reduce the risk that you will be held legally responsible 24 How you can make sure your workers and agents know how equality law applies to what they are doing 25 Using written terms of employment for employees 25 When your workers or agents may be personally liable 26 What happens if the discrimination is done by a person who is not a worker of yours or your agent
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Industry Division and Teaching Team | Community Services and Health Nursing | Student Name | Binta Bah | Student No. | 4101568315 | Teacher | Amanda Holborow | Semester/Year | | Program Name and Code | HLT51612 Diploma of Nursing | Unit Name and Code | HLTHIR403C / HLTHIR404D ATSI & Cultural Diversity | Assessment (AS) No. Description and Version | One | INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: Short and Long Answer Questions Please type your responses to the following questions into a
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treated unfair and to create a fairer and more equal society. The Equality Act 2010 protects characteristics of any individuals. One of the Acts protected age which protect employees regardless their age, this allows employers to justify straight discrimination. There are many other important characteristics such as disability, gender
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1.3 – Analyse the impact of legislation and policy initiatives on the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibility Any legislation or initiative which promotes good quality care is a positive aspect into promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. The NHS and community Care Act 1990, which has been modified in The health and social care act 2012, provides a service where any adult aged 18 or over who is eligible for and requires services from the local authority
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The changing role of women in Australia has come about largely through waves of feminism. The first wave brought women the vote in federal and State elections. The colonies began to grant manhood suffrage halfway through the nineteenth century, however, women were not included in the begining. When Australia reached Federation in 1901, it was agreed that all women should be given the vote at a federal level since women from South Australia and Western Australia already had a State vote. In 1902 all
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Workplace Inequality: Female Discrimination Over the last 60 years, women have seen their rights evolve and improve; however, many believe the separation between man and woman is still too great especially when it comes to discrimination in the workplace. Today, in the workplace, women face inequality in pay, ability to receive promotions, and ability to obtain a leadership or executive position. Women on average earn .77 to every $1 a man earns and face discrimination and are often overlooked for
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EARLY PREGNANCY Early Pregnancy is one of the most alarming issues in our world today. Many teenagers engage themselves in sexual inter course with their partners, their boyfriends/girlfriends, just to be "in" with their friends. A teenage girl being pregnant in early stage looked down upon with shame. Teenage pregnancy occurs due to many reasons. Some of these are; peer pressure, lack of knowledge, sexual abuse or rape, and teenage drinking. Peer pressure is an early stage of pregnancy, it causes
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Employment law is essential to protect employees from unjust or unfair behaviour by employers, especially those who could be under-represented if there were no laws, such as the poorest and the disabled. Two examples of this are the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995, which applies to all organisations who employ more than 20 staff. They’re required to accommodate the needs of the disables and establish a right of access for the disabled, and to stop them being treated less favourably than they
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1964” that has resulted after a long and passionate strife for equality by Americans. The Title VII of this law deals to tackle employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, and retaliation. In the year 1967, another law called “The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)” was passed to increase the set of discrimination criteria to include age. They have been followed by other very important bills like “Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970”, “Americans
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Sam's later action of blocking Paula's transfer, if deemed that he took it as an agent of NewCorp and especially in a supervisory role, made NewCorp further liable for violating the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The PDA is a statute passed in 1978 that amended Title VII, the central federal anti-discrimination statute. Later in 1991 in the case of International Union v. Johnson Controls the Supreme Court ruled that employers cannot ban women from certain hazardous jobs based on the premise
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