Terms of Reference
Working Group on Employment Law Services
Working Group established September 2010
Convenor: Monique Hitter, Director Civil Law, Legal Aid NSW
Terms of Reference
The aim of the NLAF Employment Law Services Working Group is to examine ways of increasing employment law services for socially excluded people in NSW. The Employment Law Services Working Group will endeavour to achieve its aim by undertaking the following tasks:
- Map the current provision of employment law services in both the public and private legal sector of NSW.
- Map the expressed demand for employment law services in disadvantaged communities across NSW, including mapping the levels of assistance (information, advice & minor assistance and representation) that is required.
- Engage in information and knowledge sharing initiatives relating to employment law services for socially excluded people in NSW and elsewhere.
- Investigate:
- initiatives in other states relating to the provision of employment law services to socially excluded people; and
- the scope to frame the need for public funding of employment law services as a national issue.
- Develop strategies to increase and improve access to employment law services for socially excluded people in NSW, including:
- strategies that make use of and leverage off existing resources including collaborative initiatives within the legal services sector; and
- strategies (outlined in order of priority) that require additional resources and advocate for those resources and services.
The working group will operate for a period of 12 months (subject to any decisions of the group to recommend that NLAF vary this timeframe).
