1. In a table, for each of the issues or policy areas listed below, list relevant federal and state legislation that applies to the issue or policy area. For each Act listed, provide an outline of the purpose or intent of the act, and provide three examples of how the Act would apply in your workplace context - identifying a section of the Act that is relevant to your work assessments, and how workplace actions need to be carried out in order to meet the requirements of the Act.
Your responses may be in relation to your workplace context, or for the public health sector in general:
- Workplace health and safety
- Equal opportunity
- Equity and diversity
- Responding to gender and disability
- Industrial relations
- Unfair dismissal rules and due process
- Anti-discrimination
- Sustainability and environmental issues
- Freedom of information
- Privacy
2. Public sector employees are generally subject to a range of codes of conduct, policies and guidelines that impact on standards expected for workplace behaviour. For the codes listed below, provide an outline (1-2 paragraphs per response) detailing what would be required from a public servant employee who is responsible for managing a team or teams:
- Code of conduct
- Code of ethics.
3. Assume that your work role includes negotiations, coaching and mentoring. Provide examples of legislation and their application that would need to be considered and complied with in these aspects of your role in relation to:
- Negotiations:
- freedom of information
- privacy
- equal employment opportunity
- Coaching and mentoring:
- workplace health and safety
- environmental protection
- privacy
- freedom of information