Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 527C

    The object of this Part   is to give effect, or further effect, to:

  (a)   the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, done at New York on 18   December 1979 ([1983] ATS 9); and

  (b)   Articles 2 and 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, done at New York on 16   December 1966 ([1976] ATS 5); and

  (c)   the ILO Convention (No. 111) concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation, done at Geneva on 25   June 1958 ([1974] ATS 12); and

  (d)   Article 7, and paragraphs   (b) and (e) of Article 10, of the ILO Convention (No. 190) concerning Violence and Harassment, done at Geneva on 21   June 2019; and

  (e)   the Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 (Recommendation No. 206), which the General Conference of the ILO adopted on 21   June 2019;

by prohibiting sexual harassment of workers, persons seeking to become workers and persons conducting businesses or undertakings, and providing remedies when that happens.

Note 1:   The Conventions mentioned in paragraphs   (a) and (c) and the Covenant could in 2022 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

Note 2:   The Convention mentioned in paragraph   (d) and the Recommendation could in 2022 be viewed on the ILO website (http://www.ilo.org).