About Community Legal Education

Our goal is to equip people with the knowledge, tools and support they need to navigate work with confidence and dignity, and to fully participate in safe, respectful and equitable workplaces.

Workshops & training

We deliver free, practical and engaging workshops designed to build knowledge of employment rights and entitlements and gendered workplace issues. Tailored for each group, our workshops are accessible, well-paced and use real case studies to facilitate discussion.

Our priority is reaching women, trans and gender-diverse people. However, we can deliver sessions to mixed-gender groups.

Sessions are delivered in person or online.

If you’re an employer interested in organising workplace rights training for your staff, please contact us to discuss how we can tailor a session for your team.

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Tailored workshops for your needs

We work with your group to tailor workshops to your needs, focusing on the topics that matter most to you. Sessions can be combined for breadth or deep-dived for focus.

Gendered workplace issues are those that disproportionately affect women, trans and gender-diverse people, and can limit fair and equal participation in work. 

Understanding these issues – along with our rights and entitlements – helps people to identify when something isn’t right so they can speak up, seek support and make informed decisions. 

Examples of gendered workplace topics we can deliver workshops on include:

  • Workplace sexual harassment 
  • Discrimination at work, including
    • pregnancy discrimination
    • sex/ gender discrimination 
    • discrimination based on family/ caring responsibilities 
    • discrimination on experience of domestic and family violence 
  • Discrimination on the grounds of race and other intersecting attributes 
  • Parental leave/returning to work after taking parental leave 
  • No safe job leave 
  • Flexible working arrangements 
  • Family violence and work, including paid domestic and family violence leave.

We can include several topics in one workshop or do a deep dive into a particular topic.

The First Nations Community Engagement Lead, Kamilaroi/Gomeroi woman Alex-lee Hargy, strengthens the collaboration between First Nations community and the Working Women’s Centre by ensuring community engagement is culturally safe, respectful, and guided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices. Through relationship-building and collaboration, Alex-lee works to ensures that services and initiatives are informed by lived experience and delivered in ways that uphold trust, safety, and cultural integrity.

We also deliver workshops on other common workplace issues, including 

  • Your rights at work 
  • Dismissal and redundancy  
  • Accessing leave and other entitlements 
  • Underpayments 
  • Conduct and performance issues  
  • Superannuation

“Our ACT Women’s Return to Work Workshops featured a session crafted to be clear and accessible for all participants, including those with English as an additional language. Zhenia from the Women’s Legal Centre delivered this with empathy, humour, and practicality, earning great feedback. We truly appreciated her valuable contribution.”

Program Manager of Return to Work Program
ACT Office for Women

How to request & book a session

Our workshops are informative, engaging and free. Contact us if you would like to learn more or book a workshop for your group.

What happens next?

Once we receive your enquiry we will get in touch to understand:

Who the workshop is for

We’ll discuss your group’s size, background, and any specific needs or considerations to ensure our content and delivery style is perfectly matched to your participants.

What topics will be most useful to cover

Together we’ll identify the most relevant workplace issues for your group, whether covering one topic in detail or several key areas.

Timing and availability to deliver the workshop

We’ll work with your schedule to find a suitable time and confirm whether in-person or online delivery works best.

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“The session was comprehensive and struck a balance of safe learning while addressing difficult subject matter.”

- Workshop Participant

“It was my first session but the atmosphere felt very open and welcoming and it was very informative.”

- Workshop Participant

“I really liked the interactive and little work problems that required more thinking.”

- Workshop Participant

“[I valued] hearing examples and real cases with outcomes and knowing how and what could happen.”

- Workshop Participant