The forum continues the focus on different aspects of the Statement on Religious Diversity, and the topic for this year is religious diversity in the workplace. Professor Paul Morris of the University of Victoria Religious Studies Programmewill provide an overview of the issues, including reasonable accommodation of religious practices, such as clothing, prayer times and spaces, recognition of sacred days, and issues of health and safety, inclusion, and tolerance.

He will also discuss complaints and enquiries made to the Human Rights Commission on the topic in recent years. Representatives of employers, unions and faith communities will provide further perspectives.

Confirmed panellists are Paul Mackay, Business New Zealand; Andrew Little, Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union; Ann Pala, Islamic Women's Council and Waitakere Ethnic Board; and Associate Professor Edwina Pio, AUT Business School.

The forum will also feature the launch of the Guidelines on Religion in Schools, produced by the Human Rights Commission (to be launched by Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres and the Human Rights Commission Executive Director Joanna Collinge), and the revised Statement on Religious Diversity (to be launched by Catholic Archbishop John Dew and other faith community representatives).

Date Monday 24 August
Time 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Venue Victoria University Law School, Old Government Building, Lambton Quay, LT2 (at rear), Wellington

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