Toolkits, guidelines and other resources
Creating a workplace that supports diversity and inclusion can improve productivity and customer engagement and help avoid complaints of harassment or discrimination.
The following resources are designed to help promote diversity and prevent discrimination in your workplace.
They provide practical support to develop effective policies and practices in areas including gender equality, sexual harassment, recruitment and retention of older workers, managing employees with family and carer responsibilities, workplace cultural diversity and employment of people with disabilities.
Age
- Willing to Work: Good Practice Examples for Employers (2016)
- The Power of Oldness campaign
- Working past our 60s: reforming laws and policies for the older worker
- Age Discrimination – exposing the hidden barrier for mature age workers (2010)
- National Seniors’ website, which contains strategies for attracting and retaining mature age workers
Carer responsibilities
Criminal record
Disability
- Willing to Work: Good Practice Examples for Employers (2016)
- Workers with mental illness: a practical guide for managers (2010)
- Guideline on the Disability Standard for Access to Premises (2002)
- Disability Discrimination Act Action Plans: a guide for business (2021)
Domestic and family violence
Race
- Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool
- Racism. It Stops with Me
- Targeted recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: A guideline for employers (2015)
Sex
Sexual harassment
- Respect@Work
- Ending workplace sexual harassment: a resource for small, medium and large employers (2014)
- Effectively preventing and responding to sexual harassment: a code of practice for employers (2008)