Do you employ workers in the community services industry
A new portable long service leave scheme for the community service industry launched on 1 July 2025.
If you’re an employer in the community services sector, understand your responsibilities to ensure your workers receive their long service leave entitlements.
Employer registrations are now open.
Employment information
Looking for a new job
Prepare for, find, and secure a new position after losing your job.
Mental health at work
Creating a mentally healthy workplace is the responsibility of all employers, leaders and workers in NSW. Make your workplace safer and healthier by learning about how to manage mental health at work.
Workplace rights and responsibilities
Essentials for employers and employees in NSW. Learn about leave, health and safety, employment records and other matters affected by workplace legislation.
Latest employment updates
Ministerial media release
NSW Public hospitals have welcomed more than 1,000 new medical graduate interns, as an interim pay rise begins to land in the accounts of doctors employed by NSW Health.
Ministerial media release
The Minns Labor Government has rejected calls from the Liberal Opposition to defund the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, and called on the NSW Opposition to reverse their position.
Ministerial media release
Reforms to repair the NSW workers compensation system have passed state parliament.
Ministerial media release
Nearly a quarter of a million workers in NSW will benefit from greater job security as the Minns Labor Government enters a nation-leading agreement to provide secure jobs and longer-term funding certainty for the community services sector.
Ministerial media release
More than 600 school cleaners have begun the new year as permanent public sector employees with new reforms to cleaning services beginning today to drive improved outcomes for teachers, students, principals and workers.
Grants and funding
Recent employment publications
Report
This report looks at volunteering in NSW and the value of volunteering to NSW.
Compliance, Strategy
This plan outlines a range of targets and strategies to support sustainable travel to and from the Randwick Hospitals Campus.
Guideline
Easy read guide that contains information about support services available for sexual harassment at work.
General
On 25 November 2024 the NSW Public Service Commissioner issued a Direction requiring all NSW Government Sector agencies to implement a workplace adjustments policy by 1 November 2025.
Compliance
Outlines minimum standards of ethical behaviour expected from NSW government sector employees.