atw: Re: Recruitment Agencies
- From: Ken Randall <kenneth_james_randall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:05:43 -0800 (PST)
Yes, I agree that discrimination cases are difficult.
Furthermore, since most people do not have a disability, and
can not conceive ever having one (as I used to), there is not the
same support for discrimination legislation as for laws against
burglary etc. I am inferring that that is the explanation - I do
not have any firm evidence.
However, it can be done. I won a disability discrimination case
before the Human Rights Commission against a Federal
Government department. I then won a Comcare claim before
the Administrative Appeals Tribunal using the same evidence (a
Comcare claim is a workers' compensation claim). I mobilised
my characteristics as a pedant to insist that the law be
observed.
It is right to say "(Which suggests there wouldn't be too many
unsuccessful ones launched, either.)". That is the point - this
is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If no-one brings age or other types
of discrimination complaints then that renders the law toothless.
So step forward and sink your teeth into the discriminators.
--- On Wed, 3/2/10, apj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <apj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: apj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <apj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: Re: Recruitment Agencies
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010, 9:22 AM
I find it interesting that there has only been ONE recruitment agency
recommended.
Can anyone on the the list recommend any good agencies here in Melbourne?
On Tue, Feb 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Peter Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ken Randall wrote:
> > Under the recently-passed Fair Work Australia Act the employer has
> to prove
> > discrimination did not occur if a complaint is brought. So if you
> are over 40, that
> > avenue is available.
> >
>
> Last time I looked, the Commissioner concerned was admitting that
> there had never been a single successful action taken against an
> employer under the Federal legislation dealing with age
> discrimination. (Which suggests there wouldn't be too many
> unsuccessful ones launched, either.) The law is toothless and a bear
> of very little brain.
>
> It's a fair point that agencies are not necessarily the ones involved
> in the discrimination. I have a distinct suspicion after dealing on
> several occasions with a couple of apparently enthusiastic and
> helpful agency people that one particular Federal government
> department was discriminating on an age basis. But I couldn't be
> certain of that, or prove it, of course. And you can bet the agency
> wouldn't be rushing to confirm my suspicions, for obvious enough
> reasons.
>
> Ironic that the government talks of extending the age for the pension
> to get people to work longer but has departments and agencies that
> won't recruit older people, in breach of its own legislation.
> Sure, their retention rates are increasing: but at a time of
> increasing churn in shorter term jobs, I'd like to see what their
> outside recruitment records are like for 40+, 50+, 60+, 65+ etc....
>
> Those are figures the government should be publishing, on an agency
> by agency basis, along with other areas subject to discrimination
> laws.
>
>
>
>
> -PeterM
> peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
> thousand things that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison
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