Media spotlight on employment services
We are collecting examples of job agency abuse and related news media. If you have a story to add, please send it to us here.
Job agency makes money sending unemployed to course agency made
3 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Employability course created…
Living on Centrelink payments means jumping through hoops and living on scraps – will it ever end?
5 October 2021, Guardian Australia, Lysa Llyod. Access the full article here. Life for those…
Job agencies don’t work and ruin your health
14 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Nathan, now on…
Welfare system puts disadvantaged at risk, ombudsman
13 March 2023, Guardian Australia, Paul Karp. Access the full article here. Mutual obligation system…
Employment Minister urged to stop rollout of new system
16 June 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Survey of unemployed…
Mutual obligations: Howard’s legacy lives on
1 January 2022, Guardian Australia, Anne Davies. Access the full article here. Cabinet papers 2001: government…
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Sarina Russo Jobs Access accused of dumping sensitive information in bin
28 July 2016, The Daily Mail, Sinead MacLaughlin. Access the full article here. Pages of sensitive data belonging to clients found in a skip bin. Pages included bank details, phone numbers and addresses. A recruitment agency has been discovered allegedly dumping thousands of jobseekers confidential…
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Mutual obligations make it harder to get a job
15 June 2021, The Conversation, Ruud Gerards and Ricardo Welters. Access the full article here. Under so-called mutual obligation rules, the Australian government requires the unemployed to complete activities (including training and applying for a certain number of jobs) in return for receiving unemployment benefits. Failure to…
Employment services survey
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