Australia's workplace law, in plain English.

Why we exist

Australian workplace law is dense. Modern awards, the National Employment Standards, the Fair Work Act, state-level work health and safety regimes, and a stream of FWC and Federal Court decisions that quietly change the meaning of all of it. The Fair Work Ombudsman recovers hundreds of millions in underpayments every year — often from employers who genuinely didn't know the rules.

We think everyone deserves the answer for free, with the citation attached, in the time it takes to look up an Uber.

How the AI is different

The FairWork Mate advisor is not a wrapper around a general-purpose chatbot. It's a retrieval-grounded system built on a weekly-updated library of 4,226 Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions, 14,130 Australian enterprise agreements, the current Modern Awards, the National Employment Standards, and recent legislative reforms (Secure Jobs Better Pay 2022, Closing Loopholes 2023-24, Payday Super 2026).

Answers cite the statute section or decision they rely on, by name and year, and the advisor says so when no matching decision was found rather than inventing an Australian-sounding citation the way general-purpose models can.

Identifiers (TFN, ABN, Medicare, phone, email, address, card and bank numbers) are scrubbed in your browser and again on our server before processing — it is pattern-based, so leave names out. Run and managed from Australia; hosting detail is in our privacy policy. Anonymous chats are deleted within 48 hours; signed-in history follows your plan's window (90 days on the Day Pass and Plus, 6 months on Pro, 12 months on business plans) and you can delete it any time.

Partnerships

Built on

The stack is deliberately mainstream — we'd rather use boring, well-supported tools and ship features than chase novelty.

• ·Next.js 16 App Router · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS v4
• ·Vercel (production hosting + serverless functions, AU edge)
• ·Supabase Postgres + pgvector (case-law retrieval)
• ·AI advisor grounded in Australian legal sources (Fair Work Act, modern awards, FWC and Federal Court decisions)
• ·Resend (email infrastructure, domain-verified)
• ·Stripe (consumer + business subscriptions)

The honest disclaimer

FairWork Mate provides general information and research assistance — not legal advice. For anything in dispute or with high financial stakes, contact the Fair Work Ombudsman on 13 13 94, or a workplace lawyer.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Fair Work Ombudsman, Fair Work Commission, or the Australian Government. Where we cite their data we link the original source.

Editorial standards & corrections

Our articles are prepared with AI assistance and draw on primary sources — the Fair Work Act, the relevant modern award, and Fair Work Commission and Fair Work Ombudsman material. Calculators cite their sources, and advisor answers cite the decision or section they rely on. Mistakes can still happen; if you find one, tell us and we will correct it.