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The NT Working Women’s Centre is a community based non-profit organisation with a mission to support women in the workplace. With offices in Darwin and Alice Springs, the Centre provides free and confidential advice, information and representation to women about work-related matters.
Our staff have more than 20 years’ experience in industrial relations and workplace issues and are guided by feminist values to support and empower all women.
The NT Working Women’s Centre is an inclusive organisation that advocates for all women including those who have a disability, are gender diverse, are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and women from a culturally and linguistically diverse background.
The Centre is governed by a management committee of volunteers and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and Northern Territory Office of Gender Equity and Diversity.
We also provide community education, workplace training and advocate for reforms to laws that unfairly impact women and their rights in relation to work.
The NT Working Women’s Centre helps women working in the Northern Territory with issues such as:
• working conditions
• flexible working arrangements
• pay
• accessing entitlements such as carers, parental or domestic and family violence leave
• superannuation
• unfair dismissal
• redundancy
• work health and safety
• worker's compensation
• sexual harassment
• bullying
• discrimination
• parenting and pregnancy
• domestic and family violence
• unpaid wages
• negotiating with your employer
• workplace mediation
• unions
• mental health at work
• any other work-related matters
We also provide policy advice and law reforms to government and other agencies.
In addition to providing advice and support to women, we offer Work Aware training packages for workplaces to help create and maintain strong, healthy and high performing work environments.
Contact us to find out more about how we can help.
