Principles of human resource management
172 Principles of human resource management
A council must adopt policies on human resource management and ensure that those policies give effect to the following principles:
selection processes for appointment or promotion:
must be based on merit; and
must be fair and equitable;
(b) the council's staff must have reasonable access to training and development and opportunities for advancement and promotion;
(c) the council's staff must be treated fairly and consistently and must not be subjected to arbitrary or capricious decisions;
(d) there must be suitable processes for dealing with employment-related grievances;
working conditions must be safe and healthy;
there must be:
(i) no unlawful discrimination against a member, or potential member of the council's staff on the ground of sex, sexuality, marital status, pregnancy, race, physical or intellectual impairment, age or any other ground; and
(ii) no other form of unreasonable or otherwise unjustifiable discrimination against a member or potential member of the council's staff.
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