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ParentsNext program is ‘absolute scandal’

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2 November 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. One woman’s payments were suspended for not attending a compulsory activity while her son was in hospital, peak body says The Albanese government’s failure to wind up the controversial ParentsNext program is not consistent with its commitment to gender equity, women’s advocates argue. In submissions …

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NDIS participants to be connected with employment services in ALP trial

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2 November 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Social services minister Amanda Rishworth to announce pilot scheme aimed at lifting employment rates among people with disability People on the national disability insurance scheme who want to work will be connected with a disability employment services provider under a trial to be …

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Report finds jobactive program a failure

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28 June 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. New employment services system should end activities that are unproductive and scrap automatic payment suspensions, Acoss report says Jobseekers are dissatisfied with the poor quality service and punitive treatment they’ve received under a $1bn-a-year privatised employment services program, according to a new report. …

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Employment Minister urged to stop rollout of new system

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16 June 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Survey of unemployed peopleWe draw a distinction between welfare recipients and unemployed people. The latt… suggests ‘harm was actually being designed into the system’, academic says The employment minister, Tony Burke, has been urged to pause a new “points-based” mutual obligationsParticipation requirements welfare recipients …

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Advocates warn of onerous points-based system

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7 June 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Mutual obligationsParticipation requirements welfare recipients must fulfil each month to continue… system will require people to complete an expanded range of activities to keep their payments Welfare advocates have warned job seekers may have their payments suspended under a new points-based mutual obligations …

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Department folds, gives job agencies millions in contracts for bullshit courses

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27 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Department of employment intended to ban practice before reversing course after ‘strong feedback’ from industry The employment services industry successfully lobbied to stop a proposed rule banning providers from referring jobseekers to their own training courses under the new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia model. …

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Forced to drive 120km to meet job agency

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24 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union survey reveals challenges for those seeking work, from lack of information to unreasonable demands Jobseekers have reported broad confusion about the new Workforce Australia system – including among the employment consultants tasked with running it – with some asked …

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Job seeker forced to reject work to make job agency meetings

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22 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Multiple complaints of baffling and unrealistic requirements have been reported as being set by employment agencies under the new program To go to work, or to attend an appointment to “find” work – that’s the question one worker is asking himself under the …

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63-year old forced to do 250km round trip to keep payments

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17 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Woman from Yorketown in South Australia has been referred to a job agency in Kadina under new Workforce Australia program A 63-year-old woman from regional South Australia needs to make a 250km round trip to meet her mutual obligationsParticipation requirements welfare recipients must …

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Unemployed person forced to travel 60km to meet job agent

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15 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Another says experience of new points-based system has been ‘humiliating and degrading’ A man living in regional Victoria has been told to attend job agency appointments more than 60km away under the federal government’s new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia program. And another jobseeker, who …

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New employment services program crashes at launch

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9 July 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Welfare recipients say they have been unable to log on to the new app to log job search efforts required to maintain their benefits The Albanese government has extended a 30-day pause on welfare payment suspensions to thousands of jobseekers with disability who …

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