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Rainmaker tracks gender diversity of ESG super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... identify as women. "HESTA has policies and procedures in place that ensure that employment practices are free from discrimination and that a workplace culture of diversity, inclusion and safety is fostered and maintained." HESTA is the leader of 40:40 ...

Class linked to experience of inclusion at work: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
People who self-identified as coming from lower class backgrounds experience more exclusion, discrimination and harassment at work than people from higher classes, according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). DCA recently released Class ...

Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... complaints in a year. "What we found was that two thirds of complaints concerned discriminatory employment practices or discrimination in the delivery of goods and services. Two thirds of matters that really concern Australians - fair access to work ...

Baptist World Aid Australia rates fashion companies on human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... companies have created policies addressing gender inequality in the supply chain, including a strategy addressing discrimination faced by women, and 15% more companies now have robust remediation plans to redress child or forced labour if it is found ...

ACSI finalist for 2018 Human Rights Business Award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... standards, including advocacy around the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act, supply chain sourcing, gender discrimination, whistleblower protections and wage fraud. "By increasing awareness of human rights risks, advocating for improved protections ...

Male carers face "career trap" for seeking flexible working: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Men who want to work flexibly "face high levels of discrimination," according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia DCA has published the DCA-Suncorp Inclusion@Work Index, which coincided with ...

Improved disclosure in fashion supply chain: Baptist World Aid Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... policies and strategies, noting that only 22% "had both a policy and a strategy to address gender inequality and discrimination in their supply chain." The report noted that tracing raw materials remains a significant challenge, "with just 7% of companies ...

ACSI report finds gaps in ASX200 codes of conduct, whistleblowing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... wonder how rigorously that's being pursued." ACSI defined 13 risks covered in ASX50 codes of conduct as EEO/non-discrimination, safety, gifts, environment, bribery, fraud/corruption, conflict of interest, bulling, human rights, anti-competition/anti-trust ...

Employees in more inclusive workplaces report higher job satisfaction: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... programs, Annese said. Annese also added that the index found that more than one in five Australian workers experienced discrimination or harassment last year alone (22%), with 38% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Australians with a ...

Vigeo Eiris upgrades three US companies on human rights criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... violations." "The scores of Amazon, Expedia and Microsoft have been upgraded by 10 points on average on the non-discrimination criterion, and by more than 2 points on the criterion about their contribution to the prevention of indirect human rights violations ...