'Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace' by Rosemary Hunter
'Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace' by Rosemary Hunter (Federation Press)
From the back cover of the book:
Justice Gaudron, High Court of Australia: ”a useful and practical contribution to our understanding of modern Australian anti-discrimination legislation and to the discourse of equality in an important area of life”.
An employer’s apparently neutral policies and practices, perhaps accidentally, certainly unreasonably, exclude women or minority applicants or employees: Unlawful discrimination.
A host of traditional employment practices have been found to fall into this category—height and weight requirements, a last-on-first-off policy, job mobility conditions, even a bus ticketing system, have fallen foul of equal opportunity legislation.
This indirect discrimination legislation is complex and in places highly technical. Its impact and potential is little understood. Rosemary Hunter comprehensively analyses the legislation, State and Federal, private sector and public.
She refers extensively to the large body of practice which has grown up in the United States and the United Kingdom. She includes numerous worked examples to show the factual situations which arise and discusses what “legally defensible” employment procedures may involve.
Her book has 18 chapters divided into 5 Parts, a comprehensive bibliography, and professionally prepared index and tables. The 5 Parts are:
- Part 1: Law and Discrimination
- Part 2: The Australian Legal Framework
- Part 3: The Scope of Indirect Discrimination
- Part 4: Proving Indirect Discrimination
- Part 5: Enforcement Procedures and Remedies
