Hanes Australasia is committed to a workplace that enables people with a disability to participate equally. We will do this by:
- Continuously improving inclusiveness in our recruitment and selection process
Building a disability confident culture- Reviewing and continuously improving our Workplace Adjustment Policy
- Increasing the representation of people with disability in our business through meaningful, sustainable employment
- Developing metrics to measure our progress
- Embedding accessible and inclusive practices for career development
Employee Reference Group
– AIM (Access and Inclusion Movement)
The Network’s purpose is to “drive initiatives for an inclusive workplace, raising awareness together for those with disabilities, hidden or otherwise, to have a voice and a platform to connect”
Our tagline – Elevating Access Together.
AIM is an employee-led group who sit alongside the Accessibility and Inclusivity steering committee. They act as advocates for those living with a disability within Hanes and assist in removing barriers, misconceptions and educate our people so we can start to eliminate any unconscious discrimination which may exist.
All AIM members are passionate about accessibility and inclusivity for people living with disability. They might be living with disability themselves, supporting someone who lives with disability, have lived experience with friends or family who have a disability, or are advocates for people with disability.
Inclusive Recruitment
At Hanes Australasia, it's our people who make us unique. Working as one team, we cultivate an environment where different approaches and ideas are not only valued - they are where our magic happens.
We are an equal opportunity workplace, and this commitment extends to ensuring we are providing an accessible and inclusive recruitment & selection process to enable all people, across race, gender, age, religion, identity, experience, and those coming with visible and /or non-visible disability to participate fully.
Hanes is committed to becoming a Disability Confident organisation that understands the importance of providing every candidate with an equitable recruitment experience. Our recruitment & selection practices support a barrier-free process for people with disability. We commit to ensuring everyone can perform at their best: if a person requires a workplace adjustment, at any point in the recruitment & selection process we will review and accommodate where possible. We provide training for our recruitment team and hiring managers on disability-confident recruitment practices.
Find about more about working with us on our Careers site https://jobs.hanes.com/global/en/home
Workplace Adjustments
As we strive to be a disability confident organisation, Hanes has developed workplace policies and procedures that minimise barriers and discrimination for people with disability.
Hanes Australasia is committed to:
- Maintaining effective systems, policies and procedures that promote an accessible and inclusive workplace.
- Supporting the employment of skilled and talented candidates with disability through barrier-free recruitment.
- Ensuring equality of opportunity in recruitment processes, promotion and ongoing development for team members with disability.
- Accommodating reasonable workplace adjustments to enable people with disability to participate fully throughout the entire lifecycle of employment.
- Fostering a workplace culture that is disability confident
- Consulting the person with disability about workplace adjustment needs and how to best support them in the workplace.
- Complying with legislative requirements with respect to disability andanti-discrimination.
- Maintaining the confidentiality and privacy requirements of the information in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Legislation and Hanes Australasia policies
Training and Education – Hanes Supporting Everybody
To support our team members in building their knowledge and confidence in supporting people living with disability, we've developed an internal learning series titled the Hanes Supporting Everybody series. Thus far the series has three on-line modules.
An introductory module, with a focus on understanding what disability is, and the principles of access and inclusion. An inclusive language module, which raises awareness of the impact of our attitude and language. For people leaders the module also provides a step-by-step analysis of how to support a team member through a Workplace Adjustment conversation.
For Hiring Managers, a specific module on becoming a disability confident Hiring Manager which focusses on inclusive practices across all stages in recruitment and provides the tools needed to have confident conversations with candidates with disability.