172Principles of human resource management

172 Principles of human resource management A council must adopt policies on human resource management and ensure that those policies give effect to the following principles: (a) selection processes for appointment or promotion: (i) must be based on merit; and (ii) must be fair and equitable; (b) the council's staff must have reasonable access to training and development and opportunities for advancement and promotion; (c) the council's staff must be treated fairly and consistently and must not be subjected to arbitrary or capricious decisions; (d) there must be suitable processes for dealing with employment-related grievances; (e) working conditions must be safe and healthy; (f) there must be: (i) no unlawful discrimination against a member, or potential member of the council's staff on the ground of sex, sexuality, marital status, pregnancy, race, physical or intellectual impairment, age or any other ground; and (ii) no other form of unreasonable or otherwise unjustifiable discrimination against a member or potential member of the council's staff.

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