Part 3 Division 2 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) states that it is unlawful to discriminate against applicants and employees, commission agents, and contract workers on the basis of their sex, with regard to their work conditions, employment (hiring), arrangements to hire, access to opportunities for promotion, and dismissal. Furthermore, it is illegal to discriminate against employees with regards to sex in determining who should be a partner in a firm, and also against local government councillors, members of industrial organisations and qualifying bodies.
In the treatment of employees with regards to the above circumstances it is not unlawful to discriminate if the woman is pregnant at the time they applied for the job or were being interviewed, unless, at that date, the woman could not have reasonably known that she was pregnant. Other circumstances where it is not unlawful to discriminate is when employees are employed within a private household.
There is no case of sexual discrimination if a woman is granted rights and privileges because she is pregnant, in various gender-exclusive sporting activities or in some cases of superannuation and insurance.
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