AT765517 - Airline Operations - Flight Attendants’ Long Haul - Qantas Airways Limited - Award 2000 [Transitional]
3.1 The parties bound by this award intend to achieve the principal object in subsection 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.
3.2 Accordingly, in fulfilling their obligations under clause 11 - Procedures for the Avoidance of Industrial Disputes, the parties to this award must make every endeavour to ensure that neither the award provisions nor their operation are directly or indirectly discriminatory in their effects.
3.3 Nothing in this clause is taken to effect:
3.3.1 any different treatment (or treatment having different effects) which is specifically exempted under the Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation;
3.3.2 junior rates of pay until 22 June 2000 or later date determined by the Commission in accordance with s.143E(1E) of the Act;
3.3.3 a flight attendant, 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;
3.3.4 the exemptions in subsections 170CK(3) and (4) of the Act.
