Arriving at a social equity orientation on workplace domestic violence policy in Australia. (2nd October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ellicott, Susan G.
• Is Part Of: Labour & industry. Volume 32:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 358
• Page End: 379
• Publication Date: 2022-10-02
• Subjects: Workplace domestic violence policy -- industrial relations -- policy orientations -- gender equality -- lived expertise -- social equity; Work -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Industrial relations; Work; Periodicals; 331.05
• DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2171683
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1030-1763

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines Australian Government workplace domestic violence policy as a workplace equality and gender equality policy. Drawing on Baird's typology of policy orientations and systematic process analysis of documents and elite interviews with 43 key informants, this article contributes a process theory of how and why workplace domestic violence policy developed in Australia. It finds non-traditional actors (anti-domestic violence advocates, trade union members and researchers) led traditional actors (components of the state, trade unions and employer parties) towards orientations and mechanisms on this policy post-2010 likely to enhance the social equity of employees experiencing domestic violence. Significant to non-traditional actor effectiveness on this was their lived expertise and experience on domestic violence, and trade union support.