6 July 2022, Innovation Australia, Denham Sadler. Access the full article here. ‘Confluence of disasters’: Workforce Australia launch plagued by tech issues The Department of Employment this week launched Workforce Australia, a new employment service replacing jobactive. This involves an online service, smartphone app and a network of job providers. Through these services, job seekers …
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15 February 2023, Crikey, Cam Wilson. Access the full article here. One person whose number was shared on a fake CV was receiving phone calls because of Workforce Australia’s online learning module. Workforce Australia has included people’s real phone numbers in fake résumés shown to JobSeeker recipients and published online. The Department of Employment and …
5 July 2022, Crikey, Cam Wilson. Access the full article here. Australians who risk losing welfare payments if they don’t fulfil Workforce Australia’s requirements were unable to access the service at launch. The rollout of the federal government’s new unemployment services program, Workforce Australia, has been derailed by technical issues, with some of the 750,000 …
1 June 2022, Crikey, Cam Wilson. Access the full article here. For unemployed workers who are soon to be included in a new mutual obligationParticipation requirements welfare recipients must fulfil each month to continue... scheme, there’s no honeymoon period for the Albanese government. Undeterred by a drizzly Sydney day, a group of protesters led by the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (AUWU) gathered at the …
11 August 2022, ABC News, Evan Young and Norman Hermant. Access the full article here. Students receiving JobSeeker Centrelink payments say they’re being ‘penalised’ for studying Rebekah Maslen has been working hard to prepare herself for a new career. The Ocean Grove-based student is completing a diploma of early childhood education and care, which includes 24 …
19 June 2022, ABC News, Tom Lowrey. Access the full article here. Federal government looks to fix, rather than dump, controversial changes to unemployment benefits From July, the JobActive scheme, which requires people receiving JobSeeker benefits to apply for 20 jobs a month, will be scrapped. Employment Minister Tony Burke said while the new scheme is flawed, there …
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Minister Tony Burke says the points system is “locked in” in response to calls for a “mutual” obligations suspension.
9 June 2022, Evan Young and Norman Hermant, ABC News. Access the full article here. Fear and confusion from jobseekers as ‘dramatic’ changes to Centrelink mutual obligationsParticipation requirements welfare recipients must fulfil each month to continue... loom Welfare advocates say there is very little awareness about how the new system will work. At the start of July, jobactive — the Australian government’s main employment …
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