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Solicitor - Employment Rights Legal Service

4 weeks ago

Redfern, Australia Redfern Legal Centre Full time

**Redfern Legal Centre**

**Solicitor - Employment Rights Legal Service**

**Employment Rights Legal Service Solicitor**
The Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS) is an innovative collaboration between
Redfern Legal Centre, Inner City Legal Centre, and Kingsford Legal Centre to address the employment exploitation of migrant workers. The state-wide legal service provides legal assistance to marginalised workers and in particular migrant workers and international students. ERLS engages in law reform and policy work to effect systemic change and community legal education to build capacity for communities and marginalised workers.

**Redfern Legal Centre**
- Redfern Legal Centre promotes social justice through:

- providing free legal advice, legal services and education to disadvantaged people in New South Wales, and to groups who advocate for them
- participating in activities which reduce inequalities and defects in laws, the legal system, and administrative and social practices that impact on disadvantaged people.

To achieve its purpose, Redfern Legal Centre:

- is committed to reducing social inequities and systemic barriers to people enforcing their rights
- works with clients so they can assert their rights
- seeks new and better ways of providing legal services to its clients
- is flexible in its service so that it remains responsive to changing community needs
- involves the community in its service operation and development
- strives to be non-discriminatory in its service delivery
- advocates for the public interest through issues which affect the wider community or significant sections of the community
- maintains its political independence
- uses its resources efficiently and effectively
- seeks excellence in its operation and accountability to its community and funders

**Common staff responsibilities**
All staff contribute to the administration and development of Redfern Legal Centre, and may be required to:

- Supervise the front office, including:

- supervision and training of volunteers
- provision of emergency telephone advice
- advice and assistance to Centre clients
- assessment of client intake
- review of files
- undertake the carriage and conduct of the work of other staff during periods of leave;
- provide regular reports to management and staff meetings;
- assist with the general day to day administration of the Centre as required;
- attend and participate in staff meetings, policy and staff days;
- Assist with evening advice clinics;
- assist in the preparation of submissions and reports to funding bodies, as required, including the maintenance of statistics;
- liaise and network with other professionals in the area;
- carry out such other duties as may be reasonably required by the

Management of Redfern Legal Centre.

**Employment Rights Legal Service Solicitor**
The ERLS Solicitor is supervised by and reports to the Principal Solicitor. The
Solicitor works with the project coordinator, also based at Redfern Legal Centre, as well as with Inner City Legal Centre and Kingsford Legal Centre solicitors.

The ERLS solicitor undertakes advice, casework, education and law reform in employment law to clients experiencing disadvantage across NSW, with a particular focus on migrants and international students. This includes work around unfair dismissal, unpaid wages and discrimination claims. The solicitor also delivers capacity building legal education workshops to a range of community and legal organisations.

**Advice/Casework**

Tribunals.
- Assist in coordinating and supervising the employment advice practice delivered by volunteer and pro bono solicitors, including induction and training and checking advice given by volunteer lawyers.

**Community Legal Education and Community Development**
- Prepare fact sheets and conduct training for community workers, community legal centres and employment lawyers throughout NSW.
- Represent the centre in meetings and other activities of community or government organisations.
- Provide training to client/target group(s).
- Liaise with and resource media outlets in relation to employment issues.

**Centre publicity**
- Participate in promotional activities of the Centre's services in areas of expertise.

**Law, Policy & Administrative Reform**
- Identify policy and reform issues arising from casework and ensure these issues are considered in Centre planning and (where possible) government policy development.
- Develop and undertake test cases in the area of employment law in accordance with priorities identified through Centre planning.
- Prepare law reform and policy submissions to government and other bodies.
- Represent the Centre in its dealings with community, government, professional and media organisations in relation to reform issues.

**Key Selection Criteria: Knowledge, skills and experience**

1. Qualified to practice as a solicitor in NSW and holds or is eligible to hold a current practicing certificate and at least 2 years post-admiss

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