Your business must comply with the Positive Duty
under the Sex Discrimination Act.
This isn't just a tick-a-box legal compliance issue.
You now have a legal obligation to transform your workplace's structure, culture and systems to ensure your people feel safe, as well as respected and included.
Confused? No time? Limited resources?
Dr Genevieve Burnett can help.
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Meet Dr Genevieve Burnett
Complying with the Positive Duty is challenging because you need to adopt a holistic approach. This means you need to dig beneath the surface and generate cultural, structural and systemic change in your business or organisation.
If you have over 200 workers, the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Guidelines on complying with the Positive Duty suggest that you should retain an expert to provide education, training, support and advice.
Drawing on my background in law, women’s history and communications, I specialise in helping businesses and organisations with over 200 workers implement the holistic approach required to achieve compliance.
I make the process easier because I have come up with clear steps to guide you through the compliance process.
If you are already on the journey to compliance, you can pick and choose the services you need.
Once you have complied with the Positive Duty, you will have built a safer, as well as more respectful and more inclusive workplace.
It will be a ‘win’ for both you and your people.
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Getting started is easy.
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work out the best solution for your business now.
What is the Positive Duty?
Due to a major change to the Sex Discrimination Act, every organisation and business in Australia, whether large or small, must create a workplace that is free from:
- sex discrimination
- sexual harassment
- sex-based harassment
- conduct that amounts to subjecting a person to a hostile working environment on the grounds of sex
- victimisation.
This is known as the Positive Duty.
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What do you need to do to comply?
This change in the law means you need to follow the Australian Human Rights Commission's Guidelines for Complying with the Positive Duty, which involve:
- implementing 7 Standards
- overlaying with 4 Guiding Principles
- apply Intersectionality.
The Guidelines expect you to address issues such as leadership, culture, knowledge, risk management, support, reporting and response, as well as monitoring, evaluation and transparency.
The idea is that you will drive the kind of structural, cultural and systemic change that will build a safer, as well as a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
LEARN MOREWhat happens if you fail to comply?
If you fail to comply, you could find yourself in a sticky situation.
This means the Commission can now conduct investigate businesses and organisations it suspects are not complying with the Positive Duty.
The Commission does not need to receive a complaint to commence a formal investigation into your workplace. It could base a decision to investigate on media reports, environmental scanning or anonymous tip offs.
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How Dr Genevieve Burnett can help you?
01. Reviews & Recommendations
02. Policies & Procedures
03. Education &
Training
04. Coaching &
Support
I have developed a 4-step process to help you comply with the Positive Duty.
Alternatively, you can pick and choose from the services listed above to suit your requirements.
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Keen to know how compliant your business is with the Positive Duty?
Download The Positive Duty Checklist to find out where your business is located on the journey to compliance.
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My office is located on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.
I am grateful to be on this land. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.