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Annual Report 2001–02Commonwealth Disability StrategyAll the departments employment policies comply with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. During 200102, the department developed or reviewed the following employment policies in keeping with the principles of the Act: the Administrative Agreement, and the Learning and Development Program. Both of the departments certified agreements and all its AWAs contain clauses that allow staff with disabilities to lodge complaints or grievances about any matters affecting their employment. These processes are the same for all staff. There were no complaints or grievances from staff with disabilities regarding employment practices in 200102. Recruitment information is made available to potential job applicants in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities, as defined in the Act. These include electronic and non-electronic formats. No requests for accessible formats were received during the year. No staff were recruited during the year who required the department to make reasonable adjustments to the workplace or work practices to accommodate any additional needs caused by any disability. All the departments training and development activities cater to the needs of staff with disabilities. The department did not offer any training and development programs on disability issues during the year.
Discretionary grantsThe department did not administer any discretionary grants in financial year 200102. Ecologically sustainable development and environmental reportingThe department is not an agency for the purposes of section 516A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The Joint House Department is responsible for managing the building assets of Parliament House. Joint House is implementing an environmental management plan, which provides a guide to environmental management improvements in Parliament House for the three years to June 2003. The plan was developed in accordance with the principles outlined in ISO 14001 of the International Organisation for Standardisation, which deal with the preparation of environmental management systems. Joint House reports on ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance matters in relation to Parliament House in its annual report.
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