Hiring at Macquarie
Governance & Legal Responsibilities
The Macquarie University Enterprise Agreement (Enterprise Agreement), the Recruitment, Selection and Appointment Policy and legislation underpin all of the University’s recruitment and selection processes. It’s critical that all staff involved in the recruitment and selection process have an understanding of the Enterprise Agreement and policy requirements.
The three main legal areas impacting recruitment and selection are:Best practice approach
In a best practice recruitment and selection process:
- decisions are based on merit, fairness and equity
- all steps are based on documented essential job requirements
- interviewers only ask job-related questions.
Benefits of best practice approach
A best practice approach also minimises the risk of:
- an unbalanced workforce where decisions are made upon biases, assumptions and inequitable practices
- complaints made to Anti-Discrimination tribunals
- a finding of unlawful discrimination which may result in damages against you as an individual and/or company penalties and loss of your job
- loss of public reputation.