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IPSWICH City Council is set to put the call out for female truck drivers after being granted an exemption under the Anti-Discrimination Act.
In what it refers to as an effort to improve gender diversity, the council previously advised it would seek the exemption in order to advertise for female applicants for waste truck driver roles.
There is only one female driver out of about 50 full-time waste truck drivers at the moment.
Council submitted to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) to seek an exemption late last year.
The submission stated that there are often socio-economic barriers faced by women seeking to meet the heavy rigid (HR) licence prerequisite as there are significant costs involved in obtaining the licence including specialised lessons, the cost of the licence itself and the time involved for the lessons.