The Working Women’s Resource Centre was established in 1984 for the benefit of working women.
The aims of the Centre are:
To encourage unions to become more responsive to the particular needs of working women
To encourage women to join unions and press their unions to represent their needs as workers
To alleviate discrimination in employment in order that women may gain economic and social equity
To be a voice for women in lobbying Government to promote women’s issues.
To have women empowered to press Government to represent their needs.
We provide advice on problems at work:
Dismissal
Minimum pay rates
Parental leave
Discrimination
Work-related injuries and illnesses
Sexual Harassment/Bullying
Community Organisations
Which Union you could belong to
Insecure Work
We provide:
Courses on your rights at work
Sexual and other harassment prevention procedures
A guide to the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987
Seminars on legal issues for women
We also have pamphlets, posters and information about:
Trade Unions
Parental Leave
Child Care
Sexual Harassment
Health and Safety
EEO
Pay Equity
Living Wage
Holidays and Pay entitlements
Employment Relations Act