La Trobe Financial Committed to Gender Equality

MELBOURNE, Australia - Nov. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- The Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (the Act) was established to promote and improve gender equality. The Act was designed for organisations to close the gap between the genders in the workplace, including full and part-time employees, occupation and remuneration. For over 60 years La Trobe Financial has always recognised that its employees are the very core of the company’s successful existence no matter what gender. The company has had a long history of ensuring women in the workforce are given equal opportunity with male counterparts having started a female superannuation fund for all female staff in 1968.

The Act introduces a new reporting and compliance framework. This is an important initiative which aims to reduce the regulatory burden on employers, encourage measures that improve gender equality outcomes and provide a rich data set that the Workplace Agency will analyse to develop industry-based educational benchmarks and future strategies to improve general equality in Australian workplaces.

La Trobe Financial has been recognised as a complying organisation. But that is no surprise. La Trobe Financial holds strong values of accountability, respect, trust, integrity and collaboration. It does not matter if you are female or male. If you are young or old, or been working with La Trobe Financial for 5 years or 5 days.

Brian Ford, La Trobe Financial’s Chief Operating Officer commented, “Most of our successful employees as ranked by our Company Awards each year have been women. Out of our 120 staff, we have 30 employees that have worked with us for over 10 years and 19 of them are women. That says a lot for the company.”

Greg O’Neill, La Trobe Financial’s Chief Executive Officer stated “that our staff are our greatest ambassadors. All employees are treated as individuals, deserving the respect of their subordinates, peers and superiors. Without each other’s support and commitments, we would not be one of Australia’s leading credit specialist fund managers.”