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Sex discrimination explained: unequal treatment based on sex, legal protections, and employer obligations.

Explore the Australian Human Rights Commission’s guide to disability discrimination laws, covering protections, reasonable adjustments, and positive discrimination.

A quick guide to racial discrimination, legal protection, and special measures to promote racial equality. Promote diversity and prevent discrimination in your workplace.

Employers have a legal responsibility to take all reasonable steps to prevent racial discrimination. Find out more in this quick guide.

Learn about workplace bullying, legal protections, and employer liability under anti-discrimination laws and the Fair Work Act.

Indirect discrimination occurs when a seemingly neutral rule or policy disproportionately affects people with specific attributes (e.g. sex, disability). It’s unlawful if based on protected characteristics.

Employers have a legal responsibility to take all reasonable steps to prevent discrimination. Find out more in this quick guide.

Obtain information and practical guidance on how to prevent criminal record discrimination in the workplace.

Some people with disabilities may face barriers at work because of some feature of their work situation which could readily be altered. Making these changes is commonly referred to as ‘reasonable adjustments’. Employers can be required by law to make reasonable adjustments to the workplace. Failure to do so may be discrimination. Adjustments should respond to the particular needs of the…

Caring responsibilities can include caring for young children, for children or adults with disabilities, mental illness, chronic illness, or for older people. Many employees will have caring responsibilities at different times in their lives. Employers have an obligation to avoid discrimination against carers in some circumstances. Under the Sex Discrimination Act, it is against the law for …