For advice on these issues, contact your local Community Legal Centre
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People who believe they have been unlawfully discriminated against can lodge a written complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service
Also in: Age Discrimination , Disability Discrimination , Discrimination , Gender Discrimination , Human Rights
Provides dispute resolution service, workplace wellbeing, injury management assistance and training.
Web Address: http://www.getyes.com.au/
Also in: Counselling and support , Education , Employee services
Centrelink are responsible for the development of service delivery policy and provide access to social, health and other payments and services. On 26 October 2004, Centrelink was created as part of the Finance and Administration portfolio. The Human Services Legislation Amendment Act 2011 integrated Medicare Australia and Centrelink into the Department of Human Services on 1 July 2011.
Web Address: https://www.humanservices.gov.au/
Also in: Advocacy , Aged Care , Alcohol and Other Drugs , Consumers, Money & Debt , Counselling and support
National laws prohibit racial discrimination provide for equality before the law on the ground of race.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service
Also in: Discrimination , Government & Legal Services , Racial Discrimination , Refugees & Migration , Work & Workers
Equal Opportunity Tasmania aims to foster a society free of discrimination, prejudice, bias and other conduct prohibited under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998.
Organisation Address: 54 Victoria St, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
Phone: 1300 305 062
Web Address: http://equalopportunity.tas.gov.au/home
Link Owner: Equal Opportunity Tasmania
Also in: Age Discrimination , Disability Discrimination , Discrimination , Gender Discrimination , Government & Legal Services
A Human Rights Act will help Tasmania create a fairer, more prosperous and more united future where everyone is given the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Web Address: https://www.tashumanrightsact.org/
Link Owner: Tasmanian Human Rights Act Campaign
Also in: Disability Discrimination , Discrimination , Housing , Human Rights , Refugees & Migration
The Fair Work Commission is Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal. It is an independent body with power to carry out a range of functions under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), including: providing a safety net of minimum conditions, including minimum wages in awards facilitating good faith bargaining and enterprise agreement making dealing with applications in relation to unfair dismissal administering the regulation of industrial
Web Address: https://www.fwc.gov.au/
Also in: Courts & Tribunals , Employee services , Services disabled persons , Wages & Conditions , Work & Workers
They focus on increasing productivity by reducing the burden of regulation and helping businesses find more productive ways of working. They support employment participation through addressing the barriers to employment and helping businesses to do the right thing. They focus their compliance and enforcement efforts where there is serious non-compliance and where they can deliver the greatest benefit and impact.
Web Address: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/
Also in: Advocacy , Consumer Law , Consumers, Money & Debt , Counselling and support , Employee services
The Tasmanian Law Handbook examines unfair and other prohibited dismissals under the Fair Work Act, and common law claims for wrongful dismissal.
Organisation Address: 166 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
Phone: (03) 6223 2500
Web Address: https://www.hobartlegal.org.au/handbook/work-and-workers/employment-law/termination-of-employment/
Link Owner: Hobart Community Legal Service
Also in: Discrimination , Wages & Conditions , Work & Workers
Unfair dismissal is when you are dismissed from your employment for reasons that are harsh, unjust, or unreasonable. It can also be unfair dismissal if you are not given a genuine redundancy or your employer did not follow the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code.
Phone: 1800 682 468
Web Address: http://womenslegaltas.org.au/wordy/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Unfair-Dismissal.pdf
Link Owner: Women's Legal Service Tasmania
Also in: Discrimination , Wages & Conditions , Work & Workers
