WORK1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Reasonable Person, Safe Work Australia, Australian Human Rights Commission

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Work and Organisational Studies
• Course: WORK1003
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Chapter 9: state regulation: eeo, unfair dismissal and safety at work. Understand the type of state regulation represented by each of the areas of equal employment opportunity, unfair dismissal, and work health and safety. The rule-making and enforcement processes of the 3 areas are state regulation, with a combo of: statutory regulation, delegated regulation. Both eeo & unfair dismissal have been politically controversial, resulting in significant changes over time according to the political stances of presiding govs. Explain the underlying regulatory model in each of the areas of equal employment opportunity, unfair dismissal, and work health and safety. National laws against discrimination & promoting affirmative action. Organizational management, possibly w/ employees & their reps. Organizational policies & practices on recruitment & selection, training, performance appraisals, promotion & dismissal. Mixture of state & federal laws: but the federal arena, which first addressed the issue in 1993, has become more important in recent years. State laws have traditionally dominated whs regulation.