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The Workplace Justice Visa provides migrant workers with the opportunity to stay in Australia temporarily to address workplace exploitation, unfair practices, or mistreatment. Whether you’ve been underpaid, forced to work in unsafe conditions, or subjected to harassment, this visa allows you to pursue your claims without the risk of visa cancellation. With the help of legal services like Redfern Legal Centre, you can access the support you need to protect your rights and hold employers accountable.

Legal Aid NSW has published an updated version of its 'Fined Out' booklet, produced in collaboration with Inner City Legal Centre and Redfern Legal Centre.

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the introduction of a world-first ‘workplace justice’ visa that will enable exploited migrants to stay in Australia for a short period to enforce their workplace rights. 

Let's Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at The University of Sydney. In August 2023, Bargon and Featherstone set out to find how sexual harassment practitioners were resolving out-of-court sexual harassment settlements and how they approached confidentiality terms.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) welcomes the Albanese Government’s announcement of reforms to assist temporary visa holders experiencing workplace exploitation. 

A coalition of community legal centres including RLC has sent an open letter to government calling for improvements to a proposed discrimination law Bill.

An open letter calling on the government to consider supporting key legal reforms to reduce the exploitation of vulnerable workers.

Australian laws are preventing many people from obtaining justice through the court's new research from the Grata Fund says. 

NSW government suggestions that children as young as 10 could work off COVID fines have been described as “outrageous” and could be in breach of Australia’s obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child.

RLC has filed a case in the Supreme Court of New South Wales representing plaintiffs who seek to challenge the validity of their COVID-19 fines.