Stories

We have published a number of stories from Antipoverty Centre surveys, the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union review app, news media and other sources on this site and will be adding to these over time to create an archive of material demonstrating the harms caused by “mutual” obligations and employment services providersCompliance with “mutual” obligations is enforced by outsourced employment se....

Staff review: Manipulating data

Source: Glassdoor Job seekers treated as numbers and bonuses to keep the company afloat. Have…

APM review, anonymous, 7 July 2023

The provider would encourage me to vent my issues with her, I did, this was…

Konekt charge taxpayers $216 for a 10 minute phone call

APM signed me up for motivational and physiological monitoring.

I fear the welfare system so I stay in bad situations

I will never recover. Centrelink has become part of my disability.

Only interested in keeping me on their books

It’s almost like the system is designed to keep people on or just above poverty…

APM Manager tells job seeker to ride 5 hours to appointment

A Tasmanian jobseeker says he was told to ride a bike 5 hours away to…

Staff review: Run by bullies who openly berate employees

Not enough training for dealing with people who have complex social, mental and physical barriers to employment.
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Staff review: I should have listened to the warnings

Falsely claiming payments and rewarding bullies.
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Worried the NDIS will link me with job agencies

I am treated with such discontempt to the point i want to harm myself, i once did that due to APM pressuring
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