Employment Rights Legal Service
A free statewide employment law service providing advice and representation to migrants and vulnerable workers across New South Wales.
Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS) is an innovative collaboration between Kingsford Legal Centre, Inner City Legal Centre and Redfern Legal Centre.
About this service
ERLS provides free and confidential employment law advice to migrants and other vulnerable workers across NSW.
Our solicitors can help you with problems at work, including:
- Being paid incorrectly
- Losing your job unfairly
- Being bullied by your boss
- Being sexually harassed
- Being discriminated against
Who can access this service?
We provide employment law advice to employees experiencing vulnerability anywhere in NSW. An income threshold applies. Learn more about accessing our services.
Contact Us
To book advice with one of our solicitors:
LEGAL ENQUIRY form call 02 8004 3270
If you need to use an interpreter, call us using the free Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.
If we are able to advise you, we will arrange for a solicitor to call you back. If we are not able to assist you we may refer you to other services and resources, including those listed below.
Since its inception in 2021, the Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS) has supported thousands of workers who have been targeted for exploitation.
ERLS plays a crucial role—not only by helping individual workers assert their rights, but also through its broader educational work with marginalised communities, and its efforts to hold employers accountable.
When marginalised workers, including migrant and First Nations workers, are empowered to stand up for their rights, our communities become stronger and conditions improve for all workers.
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Self-help information
Wage theft: know your rights
We often hear from workers who are being exploited by employers who do not pay correctly or deny other workplace entitlements.
Are you:
- being paid less than the minimum wage?
- not veing paid at all?
- not being paid at all for your hours of work?
- not being paid extra for working late at night or on weekends (penalty rates)?
- not being paid for leave, or redundancy pay?
If so, you are most likely a victim of wage theft with a legal right to recover what you are owed.
We can help you.
Law reform and submissions
Employment Rights Legal Service is funded by the NSW Government, through the Community Legal Centres Program.