How We Can Help

We may be able to advise or represent people experiencing:

• Unfair dismissal
• Workplace discrimination
• Disability discrimination and failures to make reasonable adjustments
• Race discrimination
• Sex discrimination
• Pregnancy and maternity discrimination
• Sexual orientation discrimination
• Religion or belief discrimination
• Gender reassignment discrimination
• Age discrimination
• Victimisation and harassment
• Equal pay disputes
• Whistleblowing detriment and dismissal
• Working time and family-friendly rights issues
• Redundancy-related disputes

Our service is subject to eligibility criteria, capacity and funding restrictions.

Discrimination Casework

Southwark Law Centre holds Legal Aid contracts for discrimination casework in Southwark and Lewisham.

Discrimination can occur in employment, education, housing, access to services and other areas of daily life. We work across the organisation to identify discrimination issues and challenge unlawful treatment wherever possible.

Who Can Be Referred?

Individuals

If you are experiencing a problem at work and would like to find out whether we can help, please complete our employment referral form.

Employment Advice Referral From – Individuals

Organisations and Referrers

We accept referrals from charities, advice agencies, community organisations, trade unions and other professionals supporting people who live, work or study in Southwark.

Please use our referral form to make a referral on behalf of a client.

Employment Advice Referral Form – Organisations

Cases We Are Unlikely to Take On

Due to limited funding and resources, we are not usually able to assist with:

• Straightforward unpaid wages or holiday pay claims
• Simple breach of contract claims
• Cases where the individual already has representation through a trade union
• Matters outside our areas of expertise or funding

If we cannot assist, we will try to signpost you to other sources of support where possible.

Legal Aid and Funding

There is very limited Legal Aid available for employment matters. Most employment cases are not covered by Legal Aid.

Our employment service is funded through a combination of Legal Aid, grants and local authority funding, allowing us to support people who might otherwise be unable to access legal advice.

Contact Us

If you are unsure whether your issue falls within our service, please complete the relevant referral form above and a member of the team will review your enquiry.

Please do not send confidential information or case papers to our general enquiries email address.