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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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People forced into job agencies as COVID cases soar

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17 January 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. People are being told they will have their benefits cut if they don’t attend job agency appointments, as government resists calls to pause ‘mutual obligation’ A woman with chronic illnesses and an immunocompromised partner and the single mother of a toddler are among …

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ParentsNext program is morally reprehensible

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24 December 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Human Rights Commission says aspects of ParentsNextA “pre employment” program targeting single parents with children under the age … program have the ‘effect of penalising parents, overwhelmingly mothers’ Job agencies running the contentious ParentsNext program have called on the Albanese government to scrap compliance from …

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Job agencies don’t work and ruin your health

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14 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Nathan, now on disability support, says job providers did little to help his search while they claimed thousands of dollars each time he found work on his own After nearly 15 years navigating the system meant to help Australians find jobs, Nathan’s mental …

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Job agency forces unemployed to do personality test

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5 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Emma Rayward says the surveys used by job agency Asuria made her feel ‘uncomfortable’ and took up most of her appointment A jobseeker has questioned why her Workforce Australia provider made her complete an online personality test that asked how well she expressed …

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Job agency makes money sending unemployed to course agency made

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3 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Employability course created by company related to job agency labelled a ‘waste of time, waste of resources’ by one jobseeker A job agency referred people into an online course created by a related company that asked basic technology questions such as “click on …

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Unemployed forced into body language courses

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1 August 2022, Guardian Australia, Luke Henriques-Gomes. Access the full article here. Providers in the welfare-to-work system are making lucrative earnings by enrolling clients into their own taxpayer-funded programs The course had to be seen to be believed. A thumbs up, the image told her, “indicates approval”. Thumbs down? “Disapproval.” Frequent blinking? “Excitement.” A person …

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Ronnie spent five years looking for work. A new report says many others are ‘being left behind’

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8 December 2022, SBS News, Aleisha Orr. Access the full article here. A report has found those with barriers to work, such as older workers who have lost their jobs later in life, people who did not finish year 12, or people living with disabilities struggle to get into the workforce. Ronnie Ware has spent …

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“Job agent” caught blaming a job seeker for unemployment

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23 February 2022, SBS News, Eden Gillespie. Access the full article here. WISE Employment and the Department of Social Services have launched investigations into the alleged conduct shown in the video. A job agent has been captured on camera telling an unemployed man that it’s his own fault that he cannot find work. The video, …

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