AP824076 - Australian Government Employment – Conditions and Salaries Award 2003
10.1 It is the intention of the respondents to this award to achieve the principal object in s. 3(j) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 through respecting and valuing the diversity of the workforce by helping to prevent and eliminate discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, sexual preference, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin.
10.2 Accordingly, in fulfilling their obligations under the procedure to avoid industrial disputation, the respondents must make every endeavour to ensure that neither the award provisions nor their operation are directly or indirectly discriminatory in their effects.
10.3 Nothing in this clause is taken to affect:
10.3.1 any different treatment (or treatment having different effects) which is specifically exempted under the Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation;
10.3.2 junior rates of pay;
10.3.3 an employee, employer or registered organisation, pursuing matters of discrimination in any State or federal jurisdiction, including by application to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
10.3.4 the exemptions in s.170CK(3) and (4) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
