Course Overview

Equal Employment Opportunity for Employees is a training course designed to provide workers with an understanding of what behaviour is considered unlawful and unacceptable. The course defines EEO, types of discrimination, protected attributes and how the complaints process is handled. This course is based on Australian legislation and is designed to support human resource training programs.

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide an understanding of:

• what equal employment opportunity (EEO) means
• the legislation that applies to EEO
• behaviour that is considered unlawful discrimination and defences and exceptions
• how organisations should manage internal complaints, and
• what happens when an individual makes an external complaint.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at all employees in the Australian workplace. The course outlines situations and organisations that may be exempt from EEO requirements.