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Australia Employer Liability Issues Sexual Harassment

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In defence of non-disclosure agreements

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Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs or confidentiality agreements) have come under fire in recent years due to concerns that they silence victims, conceal unlawful behaviour and prevent companies and regulators from understanding...more

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Board accountability and sexual harassment in the new regime

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If it’s not already happening, Board room agendas will be making room for yet another compliance program. We’ve said it before and it’s worth repeating: the bolstering of anti-sexual harassment laws will see workplaces...more

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Australian Reforms Tackle Psychosocial Hazards, Including Sexual Harassment, in the Workplace

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In the wake of recent government inquiries into alleged bullying and harassment, including sexual harassment, in Australian workplaces, Australian legislatures and work health and safety regulators have become increasingly...more

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Preventing sexual harassment – adopting a safety oriented approach

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Employers around Australia will need to review and centralise sexual harassment prevention initiatives in light of the new duty in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 to take “reasonable and proportionate” measures to prevent...more

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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What Australian Companies Need to Know

What constitutes sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is conduct of a sexual nature, a sexual advance or a request for sexual favours that is unwelcome, where a reasonable person having regard to all the circumstances...more

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Safeguards, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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It is widely proclaimed that we are in the midst of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR). The leaps and bounds that are being made daily in information technology and biotechnology signal the end of homo sapiens or...more

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The Law on Harassment is Simple: Businesses Must Condemn It

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An extraordinary cultural shift is playing out in the media. Sexual harassment leads our news feeds and has done for months. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review - November 30th, 2017....more

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The future of work: pioneering health and safety professionals

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Addressing issues including mental wellbeing and workplace responses to domestic violence and sexual misconduct require multidisciplinary approaches. ...more

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Human Rights at the Pub: The Expanding Scope of Sexual Harassment Laws

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A recent decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court (Court) has significantly broadened the concept of what constitutes a 'workplace' by finding that a contractor sexually harassed an employee in various locations,...more

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