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