Resources

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations if you are involved in a car accident while working in NSW.

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations in relation to flexible working arrangements.

This factsheet explains what workplace discrimination is and what you can do if you think you have been discriminated against.

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations in relation to workplace underpayments.

Is your current visa expiring in the next 28 days? Have you been exploited at work? Do you want to stay in Australia to take legal action against your employer?

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations in relation to making an unfair dismissal claim. It outlines who is eligible to apply, what counts as a dismissal, what makes a dismissal unfair, the strict 21-day time limit, the application process through the Fair Work Commission, and the possible remedies of compensation or reinstatement.

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations in relation to sham contracting arrangements.

This factsheet explains your rights and obligations in relation to General Protections claims involving dismissal.

The Employment Rights Legal Service thanks the Review Panel and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for the opportunity to provide a submission on the review of the operation of the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 (‘Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act’) and the amendments made by Part 16A of Schedule 1 of the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Act 2023 (‘the Review’).

ERLS strongly supports legislative reform to limit the use of non-compete and other restraint of trade clauses, particularly in relation to low- and middle-income workers. Our key reform priority is to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts in Australia, at a minimum for low- and middle-income workers. We also recommend further reform to restrict other restraint of trade clauses (such as non-solicitation clauses) in employment contracts so that they only operate to the extent that they are reasonable and proportionate.