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The Working Women’s Resource Centre is an Incorporated Society, set up 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
- Community Organisations
- Which Union you could belong to
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
