Australian Businesses and Human Rights Responsibilities

Australian Businesses and Human Rights Responsibilities
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Australian Businesses and Human Rights Responsibilities
Businesses continue to shape the manner in which the world is continually transformed on a daily basis. This applies to virtually all sectors in which businesses are involved, which include finance, the economy, climate change, and even social sectors such as the observation of human and labor rights (Salcito et al, 2013). In every sense possible, businesses influence the development of the society and how it is perceived. As far as human rights responsibilities are concerned, businesses have a duty to ensure that they treat their employees in ways that are consistent with human rights and freedoms. A failure to observe this results in a breakdown of the social structures and the role of businesses in mitigating the abuse of human rights (Pender & O’Brien, 2017). This paper posits that the abuse of human rights at the workplace is a problem caused by the failure of businesses to reconcile their operations and workplace culture with human rights and freedoms, and proposes that businesses need to restructure their operational protocols and redefine their workplace cultures as a means to ensuring the observation of human rights.
In order to effectively address this issue, this paper looks to explore issues such as organizational structure, operational protocols, financial models, and workplace culture with the aim of uncovering how these factors contribute towards the abuse of human rights at the workplace. By examining these issues and their contributions, or lack thereof, to human rights abuses, businesses can be better informed on how they propagate human rights abuses (Bishop, 20...