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RLC solicitor Linda Tucker weighs in on the Government's proposed $200 a week internship scheme, declared 'illegal' by the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

The reactive remedies to discrimination in Australia, which require individuals to take up complaints rather than imposing a positive duty on respondents, continue to undermine the positive intentions of anti-discrimination laws.

There have been no prosecutions in the 26 years since the provisions creating a criminal offence for serious racial vilification became part of the NSW Anti Discrimination Act (ADA). In other words, these provisions have never been used.

17 December 2015 Victims of domestic violence are vulnerable to workplace discrimination, potentially amounting to exclusion from work.

14 December 2015 The inclusion of a right to request flexible work arrangements for employees with carers’ responsibilities was greeted enthusiastically when it came into effect in mid-2013.

The government has established an inquiry into the education system, in response to long-standing accessibility problems for students with disabilities.

The NSW Government is joining forces with the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW to combat racism in the rental market.

Section 18C of the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) is among the laws highlighted as having potential to interfere with Australians’ civil liberties in a recent Australian Law Reform Commission report.

Being an independent contractor has lots of benefits – you run your own show and keep your own hours. But what legal recourse is available to contractors when things go awry?

The Productivity Commission’s draft report into its Workplace Relations Framework Inquiry, which is set to be released next month, is expected to raise a number of issues of importance to Australia’s workplace relations framework.