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EmploymentYour local generalist Community Legal Centre can help you with information about the law as it relates to employment, e.g. workplace bullying, health and safety, unfair dismissal, discrimination and training. See the Find a Local CLC section of our website.
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Community Legal Centres
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Environment Defenders Office
(EDO) is a specialist CLC that helps public interest groups and individuals to protect and conserve the environment. It publishes resources, provides legal advice and representation, conducts community workshops and seminars, and makes policy reform submissions. Services not dependent on where you live. |
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Job Watch
Job Watch is a specialist CLC that focuses on employment law and training related issues. It provides free legal advice, information, publications and limited casework services for disadvantaged workers and workers experiencing human rights abuses. Services not dependent on where you live. |
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Community organisations
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Australian Council of Trade Unions
The peak body for trade unions. |
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Victorian Trades Hall Council
The peak body for Victorian trade unions. |
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Government organisations
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Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
The Federal Government’s Employment and Workplace Relations Department. |
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Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate
The Office of the Victorian Workplace Rights Advocate is able to help employees, employers and independent contractors understand the new industrial relations changes (Work Choices legislation introduced March 2006) and to act in ways that can develop fair and cooperative workplaces |
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Work Safe (Victorian Workcover Authority)
The Victorian Workcover Authority promotes workplace safety, enforces occupational health and safety laws, provides insurance for employers, helps injured workers to return to the workforce and manages the workers’ compensation scheme. |
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Publications
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Fact sheets and Pamphlets – Job Watch
Job Watch produces an extensive range of helpful pamphlets and fact sheets. Browse the Publication section at the Job Watch website for more information. |
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People and work
Published by Job Watch and Victoria Legal Aid, this is a Publication about your rights and responsibilities in the work place. |
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Your Work, Your Rights
An excellent site for students and young people developed by RMIT Union Legal Service and Job Watch. |
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Complaints resolution
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Accident Compensation Conciliation Service
The Conciliation Service facilitates the resolution of disputes by involving all parties - workers, employers and WorkCover agents or self-insurers - to achieve an agreement that is fair. |
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Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC)
The AIRC facilitates agreements between employers and employees in relation to wages and conditions, settles industrial disputes and hears matters in relation to remuneration and termination of employment. |
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