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New on Draw Your Box today: A thoughtful and important piece by Prabha Nandagopal, who last month was named the IABCA Business Leader of the Year at the India Australia Business and Community Alliance awards. Now, the Human Rights Lawyer and Founder of Elevate Consulting Partners has founded a platform – SafeSpace@elevate – dedicated to achieving greater cultural safety for employees when reporting toxic workplace culture. “Employees often suffer in silence, fearing retaliation or feeling that the system won’t protect them,” writes Nandagopal. “It’s something I can relate to as a South Asian woman working as a human rights and discrimination lawyer for almost two decades. Often the only woman of colour in the room, I didn’t feel safe raising concerns in some of my previous workplaces because I felt that these systems didn’t respect or understand my cultural identity. It wasn’t just the fear of retaliation; it was the knowledge that I wouldn’t be fully heard or understood. “After years of researching barriers to reporting and designing effective response mechanisms, I knew something had to change.” Read the full piece below.
Preethi Mohan
3mo
Such an important cause. Prabha is absolutely amazing! 🌟
Dowry Abuse (SME); Senior CALD DFV Case Manager; Specialist Consultant - Culturally Driven Abuses & CALD Engagement
3moThe sad truth is that the systemic protections that were even in place are no longer enforced. It’s become a vault of policy which is simply a compliance tick. This makes it difficult for any employee but even more so when there is an intersection of colour bias, discrimination, prejudice or any form of disability. Many of us who have called out discrimination or harassment have found that you pay for it by a loss of reputation which alienates you from your colleagues, peers even so called friends. We need to support those who call out discrimination and misconduct as that is one way of maintaining standards but also so we don’t go further down the path of obedience and submission just to keep a job. #fairwork #StopRacism #Discrimination