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Sarina Russo Jobs Access accused of dumping sensitive information in bin

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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 details in a skip out the back of their offices.  …

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Jobactive virus kickbacks top $500 million

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29 August 2020, The Saturday Paper, Rick Morton. Access the full article here. Government policies have seen the ‘unemployment industry’ paid millions during the pandemic, while jobless rates soar. When Employment Minister Michaelia Cash approved an advance payment worth more than $100 million for private job agencies to cover administration fees early in the coronavirus …

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Mutual obligations make it harder to get a job

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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 comply attracts demerit points which can lead to the loss of benefits. …

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Australian government makes life hell for poor people

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4 July 2022, Vice Australia, John Buckley. Access the full article here. A new employment services platform is suggesting some job seekers apply for jobs out of state, for those who can access the service at all Countless Australian job seekers could find themselves facing payment delays for not reporting to Centrelink, after technical difficulties …

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Crossbench concerned about treatment of poor people

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7 July 2022, Vice Australia, John Buckley. Access the full article here. We can’t forget the distress caused by Robodebt. Members of the crossbench in both the Senate and Lower House have grown restless over the government’s treatment of job seekers this week, after countless welfare recipients were forced to grapple with an “unusable” new …

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Government storing sensitive data without consent

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25 July 2022, Vice Australia, John Buckley. Access the full article here. Ensnared in controversy since launch, Workforce Australia continues to be a source of fear and distress for jobseekers around the country Over the last fortnight, several jobseekers have tried to contact support staff at the government’s new employment services platform, Workforce Australia, to …

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Workforce Australia is a mess

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5 July 2022, Vice Australia, John Buckley. Access the full article here. The platform has become the source of widespread “fear and distress” among welfare recipients across the country The Australian government is either technologically inept or “hates” poor people, one expert suggests, as countless job seekers continue to find themselves without access to new …

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Should Australian companies make millions out of people’s unemployment misery?

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27 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Malcom Farr. Access the full article here. Next week’s jobs summit seems like an opportune time to raise questions around the effectiveness of the privatised employment industry The government is about to launch what it hopes will be a rescue mission to relieve an understaffed and inflation-battered economy. Discussions on …

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Living on Centrelink payments means jumping through hoops and living on scraps – will it ever end?

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5 October 2021, Guardian Australia, Lysa Llyod. Access the full article here. Life for those of us on welfare benefits holds little hope. If our society can’t look after its most vulnerable, maybe it needs to be torn down or the past six years, I haven’t had more than $500 in my savings account at …

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Too late to can new employment services system, Employment Minister

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19 June 2022, Guardian Australia, Sarah Martin. Access the full article here. Tony Burke aims to make scheme ‘logical’, despite unemployment advocates’ calls for halt to controversial program The employment minister, Tony Burke, says it is too late to scrap a controversial points-based mutual obligationParticipation requirements welfare recipients must fulfil each month to continue… system for …

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Analysis: In Australia’s welfare sector obligations are ‘mutual’, but profits flow only one way

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6 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. As jobseekers face ‘humiliating’ tasks to maintain payments, vast network of job agencies rakes in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars Two words make the money go round in Australia’s multi-billion dollar welfare-to-work industry: mutual obligationParticipation requirements welfare recipients must fulfil each month …

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