Working with employers to advance opportunity: a roadmap to strengthen the eco-system
Overview
'Employer practice change’ refers to changes made by employers to their employment policies, practices and culture to create quality job opportunities and more inclusive, equitable and supportive workplaces.
This report enhances understanding of the employer practice change ecosystem in Australia, draws relevant insights from international experiences, and identifies opportunities to accelerate progress by strengthening and supporting the ecosystem's development. The primary intended audience is actors within the Australian employer practice change eco-system.
The report provides a roadmap for the eco-system to accelerate progress through strategic coordination, and move from an eco-system of disjointed actors towards a ‘field’ with a shared purpose, goals, values and activities, to better achieve practice changes that will provide more equitable access to quality jobs.
The report is accompanied by a webinar about the Employer Innovation Lab which helps organisations meet current and future workforce needs by rethinking how they attract, recruit, retain, and support young people.
Key findings
- Develop shared language around employer practice change.
- Consolidate and catalogue practice change guides and identify gaps.
- Work towards agreed practice frameworks.
- Develop capability building and fellowship programs for professionals in the eco-system.
- Develop a digital platform to facilitate sharing research, evidence and tools.
- Consolidate evidence on the relative strength of available policy options and leverage points.
- Build an alliance of employers who will advocate for employer practice change.
- Identify new funding for employer practice change and/or field-building.
- Federal government takes steps to foster the authorising environment.