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Research from UNSW and UTS shows that an overwhelming number of international students and backpackers in Australia are suffering wage theft in silence. If you are not being paid correctly at work, there are steps that you can take.

Short changed at work: Wage theft from migrant workers (recording)

Figures from an analysis of police data by Redfern Legal Centre show increased use of lethal practice in NSW. Paul Gregoire reports for Sydney Criminal Lawyers.

Redfern Legal Centre’s police powers solicitor Samantha Lee and Dr Vicki Sentas, convenor of RLC’s police powers clinic, spoke to Buzzfeed News about the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) used by NSW Police to target children as young as nine years old.

The NSW Parliament Law and Safety Committee has just released a report calling on NSW police to make publicly available details surrounding a “hidden” blacklist used by police to target children as young as nine.

On 20 September, the Law Enforcement and Conduct Commission (LECC) released findings of its first three reports on police misconduct.

The two deaths that occurred at a recent Sydney music festival are an absolute tragedy and RLC does not want to see young people’s lives put at risk.

Our September e-Bulletin focuses on employment law and wage theft.

Criminal Sanctions for Wage Theft? ‘Wage theft’ is the new buzzword being used to describe the underpayment of employment entitlement to employees.​

The federal government has taken aim at rampant wage theft by franchises like 7-Eleven, Caltex and Domino’s, by passing an amendment to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).