Sch 8Prescribed provision relating to discrimination

Schedule 8 Prescribed provision relating to discrimination (subregulation 30ZI (1)) The parties to this AWA agree that: (a) it is their intention to achieve the principal object in paragraph 3 (j) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, which is to respect and value the diversity of the work force by helping to prevent and eliminate discrimination at their enterprise 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; and (b) any dispute concerning these provisions and their operation will be progressed initially under the dispute resolution procedure in this AWA; and (c) nothing in these provisions allows any treatment that would otherwise be prohibited by anti-discrimination 7provisions in applicable Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation; and (d) nothing in these provisions prohibits: (i) where the AWA is approved before 23 June 2000, the payment of junior rates of pay; or (ii) any discriminatory conduct (or conduct having a discriminatory effect) that is based on the inherent requirements of a particular position; or (iii) any discriminatory conduct (or conduct having a discriminatory effect) if: (A) the employee is a member of staff of an institution that is conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed; and (B) the conduct was in good faith to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of that religion or creed.