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10 - Advancing Psychosocial Diversity Using Contract and Unfair Dismissal Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2020

Paul David Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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This chapter moves away from identifying regulatory gaps and proposing reforms, and instead analyses how existing laws could provide an imperfect remedy for those who are not protected by anti-discrimination laws. Unfair dismissal options protect all workers against certain forms of dismissal.[1] This remedy seeks to address unfair contractual treatment and not discriminatory treatment. A positive element of these provisions is that there is no need to prove disability, or come out with a disability if it is invisible. This is a huge benefit for those who have a range of abilities which may not qualify as a disability under anti-discrimination laws, or who may desire not to identify as having a disability to themselves, their families or their employers.

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Ableism at Work
Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment
, pp. 207 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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