Workplace rights and obligations
The Fair Work Ombudsman can give you information and advice about your workplace rights and obligations.
Issues they deal with include:
- pay
- leave
- ending employment
- employee entitlements
- awards and agreements
- independent contractors
- hours of work, breaks and rosters
- penalty rates and allowances
- redundancy.
For more information, visit their website, or give them a call them on 13 13 94.
The Fair Work Ombudsman website also provides some self-service tools to help you. These include:
- pay and conditions tool to find pay rates, leave, notice and redundancy entitlements
- free online courses to help with having difficult conversations with your boss
- templates and guides for record-keeping and pay slips.
Workplace health and safety
WorkSafe Tasmania focuses on improving workplace health and safety in Tasmania by providing education and guidance, and through investigations and audits of workplaces. If you have questions or concerns about workplace health and safety, contact WorkSafe Tasmania on 6166 4600 or 1300 366 322.