New workplace practices to guide firms through sexual harassment and discrimination at recruitment stage
New workplace practices to guide firms through sexual harassment and discrimination at recruitment stage Share
NSW law firms are being encouraged to implement a new workplace guide around sexual harassment and discrimination within employment and recruitment practices to foster a fairer, diverse and more inclusive legal workplace.
In addition to the set of checklists to guide legal practices through decision-making related to hiring, recruitment and employment, the NSW Law Society’s new workplace model contains policies around model equal opportunity, anti-harassment and grievance handling procedures to accompany existing guidelines.
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Why stamping out sexual harassment starts at the recruitment process
By Emma Ryan and Naomi Neilson|06 May 2021
Following alarming reports showing the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the legal profession, a workplace specialist says hiring managers need to look at the recruitment process first if there’s any hope to eliminate the crisis.
According to Maureen Kyne of Maureen Kyne & Associates, the road to eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace begins with the recruiting process.
“Employing staff with undesirable traits is more likely to wreak havoc and cause incidents in the workplace,” she said.
“Sexual harassment is often about power and entitlement, and workplaces need to get better at identifying personality traits that may contribute to sexual harassment.
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Kyne & Associate Director Maureen Kyne says there is still inappropriate behaviour occurring at workplace parties despite many of them being held virtually this year.
“What’s happened is the home itself has become the venue, and I don’t believe that the due diligence has been done in relation to setting up a structure around how people should be conducting themselves in these online parties,” Ms Kyne told Sky News.
“You may end up consuming a lot more alcohol because we haven’t actually taken that time to perhaps think about it as what we might when we were doing a physical party, a party in another venue .