BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Human Rights And Equal Opportunities Commission
- an Australian federal government body that administers legislation relating to human rights, anti-discrimination, privacy, and social justice. It was established in 1986, replacing the Human Rights Commission.
- Abbr. HREOC
Additional Resources
- Mothers fear work rights are at risk.
- Mar 12, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Services Union has alleged that Qantas Airways breached Australia's Sex Discrimination Act. The union is consulting lawyers and intends to lodge a series of complaints with the nation's Human Rights & Equal...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Civitas Online Report: Response to the White Paper, Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights
- The White Paper, Fairness For All, announces that, by 2006, the government intends to do away with all existing statutory bodies currently charged with promoting group equality in the workplace. The Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission, and the Disabilities Rights Commission are all due to go. The...
- White papers 2004-08-24
- Standards to help disabled access e-banking.
- Apr 23, 2002 (E-Commerce Today ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian banking industry has standards for Internet banking that ensure access issues for the aged and disabled are covered. Two years of work by the Australian Bankers' Association and the Human Rights & Equal...
- Research articles 2002-04-22
- In a family way and fired, she sues
- An analyst has sued a Greenwich hedge find that she claims fired her last year after she returned from maternity leave. Annabelle Garrett says she filed a discrimination charge against Axiom International Investors L.L.C. in January with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- Ex-worker sues hedge fund on discrimination charge
- An analyst has sued a Greenwich hedge fund that she claims fired her last year after she returned from maternity leave. Annabelle Garrett says she filed a discrimination charge against Axiom International Investors L.L.C. in January with the US. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- The Results Of Mehri's Findings & The Impending Lawsuit For Blacks In The Ad Industry
- The ad agencies brought this on themselves. AdAge's Ken Wheaton called it in his July 2008 editorial, "Agencies Have Funny Way of Showing 'Commitment' to Diversity". Back then, when agencies failed to show up for The New York City Commission on Human Rights meeting, he said lawyers would come...
- News items 2009-08-07
