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Unemployed must apply for 40 jobs per month and work for the dole; Federal Government's $5.1 billion overhaul of the job services system
Topic Started: 28 Jul 2014, 03:53 PM (3,715 Views)
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Unemployed to be forced to apply for 40 jobs a month as part of $5 billion dole overhaul

By Naomi Woodley

Most unemployed people will be required to apply for up to 40 jobs a month and work for the dole, as part of the Federal Government's $5.1 billion overhaul of the job services system.

Details of the Government's draft model and tender information for new five-year contracts, which would take effect in July next year, are expected to be released today.

Assistant Employment Minister Luke Hartsuyker has told the ABC's AM program that the "new system will focus job service providers on getting people into work, it will cut the red tape, and it will free them up to use their initiatives and innovate in the ways they deliver programs".

"It's going to deliver far better outcomes for job seekers and far better outcomes for employers," he said.

"Job service providers will be rewarded for getting people into work for periods as short as four weeks - so there'll be four-week, 12-week, and 26-week outcomes."

Mr Hartsuyker says the system is designed to provide incentives to make sure unemployed people find and keep work.

"It's not unreasonable to expect that job seekers should be out there looking for work," he said.

However, Council of Small Business chief executive Peter Strong says the new measures will be an added burden.

"If you've got a lot of applications to look at, a lot of emails coming in, a lot of letters being posted, then you're going to have to spend your Sunday morning or an evening going through them all, or you're going to have to cull the ones out very quickly that you think are looking to keep their unemployment benefits rather than apply for a job," he said.

"It will take the time of small business people, there's no doubt about it."

Opposition employment spokesman Brendan O'Connor says he supports working for the dole "but the activities have to be not a form of punishment, but increasing their capacity for jobseekers to find work".

It is not unreasonable to expect that job seekers should be out there looking for work on every working day.
Assistant Employment Minister Luke Hartsuyker

This year's budget set up a new subsidy scheme to encourage more businesses to hire unemployed mature age workers over the age 50.

That is also expected to be included in the model, along with new subsidies to support job seekers under the age of 30 and the long-term unemployed.

Mr Hartsuyker says the total package will be $5.1 billion across three years.

"We are targeting those resources on people who need the most help," he said.

"Quite clearly, taxpayer funds are limited so we have to target resources to maximise outcomes for the people who are most job-ready.

"Those people get less support than those who are in need of greater interventions to get them into work. Also, a factor in this will be the length of time a person may have been unemployed."

The funding will be organised through a system of employment areas which will also be set out in the tender documents released today.

The new model will also incorporate the Government's significantly expanded Work for the Dole program for job seekers up to the age of 50, and the expectation that most will apply for up to 40 jobs each month.

"Quite clearly, taxpayers who fund benefits go to work every day and it is not unreasonable to expect that job seekers should be out there looking for work on every working day," Mr Hartsuyker said.

However, Greens leader Christine Milne says rather than making the unemployed apply for more jobs every month, Newstart allowance should be increased.

"What we should be talking about is increasing the Newstart allowance by $50 a week so that we actually get the opportunity to help people to be able to survive and actually make themselves available in the jobs market," Ms Milne said.

"I just can't help but think that people sitting in Canberra on a deckchair outside smoking a cigar telling a young unemployed person in Burnie, Tasmania, 'You apply for 40 jobs'," she said.

"Well, where? And then Eric Abetz telling them 'go to Melbourne and get a job'. Well where are they going to live when they get to Melbourne?"

The Government wants feedback on the draft scheme to be provided by the end of next month.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-28/job-services-overhaul-benefit-young-long-term-unemployed/5627660
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The Coalition is implementing the classic Thatchertite plan which is tough on evidence-based policy:

1 - Purposefully keep employment moderately high to maintain low wages for your corporate mates via a surplus labour pool.

2 - Keep dodgying stats that show 6% unemployment when the effective rate (under employment etc) is probably 18 – 20%

3 - Keep the unemployed desperate enough to take any crap working conditions they can to get off 'work for the sub-poverty line' dole.

4 - Keep the 457 visa flood line open to help drive down conditions and not significantly decrease your purposefully intended surplus labour pool (the bogeyman ‘wage inflation break-out’ used as a convenient excuse).

5 - Put the blame on the jobless, when the unemployment blame lies on incompetent ministers whose policies are eroding working conditions and the quality of life for the increasingly working poor.

6 - Demonise those receiving benefits, while ignoring they are usually well below the poverty line and struggling.

7 - Continue to deflect from the massive corporate welfare state and land-owner parasite economy that we have become.

8 - Pump additional tax revenues into 1% pockets that used to pay for essential government services and basic welfare net payments.

We are clearly living in a plutocracy/oligarchy under the PM’s stewardship, and his merry band of fools simply have no policies, other than those directed by the IPA, Sydney Institute and Plutonomists Pty Ltd etc.
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every government worker is basically an unemployed person.
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Why work for the dole doesn't work

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The federal government will be out in force this week spruiking its work for the dole scheme but Australians should ignore the political theatrics and focus on the one unavoidable truth: the proposed scheme will not work. It’s a dud.

Under the proposal, Australians aged 18 to 30 will be required to work 25 hours per week to receive their welfare payments. Those aged between 31 and 49 will have to work 15 hours.

At first glance it seems like a good idea. Surely gaining work experience and skills in return for your welfare cheque is a good thing, right?

Unfortunately such schemes rarely allow the unemployed to gain useful work experience or skills. As a result, work for the dole has consistently failed to provide sustainable work opportunities and evidence suggests that it may in fact increase the length of joblessness.

Rather than a path to success for unlucky (or occasionally lazy) Australians, it represents a subsidy for menial work that the market doesn’t value. Why pay for a job when you can get someone to do it for free?

Research in 2004 by Jeff Borland and Yi-Ping Tseng of Melbourne University found that “there appear to be quite large adverse effects of participation in [work for the dole]”. Those who were not in the program generally found it easier to find active employment.

Participation in these programs mostly diverts participants away from jobseeking activities towards what is often menial and unrewarding work. Some readers might doubt the significance of this effect but we should bear in mind that many candidates will have to write dozens of applications simply to find a single interview, let alone a job.

More importantly, programs such as work for the dole are pretending to find solutions to problems that can more easily be solved through greater economic growth. Harsh and ineffective welfare reform will achieve little more than punishing younger Australians and the long-term unemployed for economic conditions they played no role in creating.

High levels of youth unemployment are a product of the global financial crisis. Outside of the mining sector, opportunities evaporated across the country and younger Australians -- who are more sensitive to the business cycle -- were the ones who paid the price.

Unfortunately, the outlook for employment is far from bright. According to the Department of Employment, based on the 2014-15 budget estimates the Australian economy will fail to generate sufficient jobs to absorb population growth over the next five years.

The federal government is admitting that its policies will be insufficient to keep unemployment in check. On that basis, the only reasonable conclusion is that work for the dole will fail: if the opportunities don’t exist, then it really doesn’t matter how much work someone does for their welfare payments.

The federal government may be serious about tackling youth unemployment but policy recommendations must be based on evidence rather than ideology. The Coalition has decided that giving people a kick up the butt will be sufficient to get them back to work but that’s far too simplistic. Unfortunately they have failed to give due recognition to the most important part of the puzzle: without opportunities it doesn’t matter how harsh your welfare system is, people still won’t find jobs.

Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2014/7/28/australian-news/why-work-dole-doesnt-work
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It can't work because if the people could work they would have a job.
This is really simple stuff guys.
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Unfortunately they have failed to give due recognition to the most important part of the puzzle: without opportunities it doesn’t matter how harsh your welfare system is, people still won’t find jobs.


It really is as simple as that. 100 dogs out looking for bones but only 95 bones in existence - the fact that some dogs must come home without a bone is such a starkly obvious reality that a young child can understand it. If the jobs exist they can be found - if they aren't there at the time, no amount of searching will magically turn up what isn't there.

If they can make people work for the dole then they can re-institute their old (once very successful) approach of government acting as employer of last resort. They don't want to because it runs counter to the prevailing ideology and because some elements in society benefit from the existence of a pool of unemployed.

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every government worker is basically an unemployed person.


I didn't realise that police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, paramedics, schoolteachers etc etc etc were not actually out there on the job each day, performing functions that civillization as we know it would collapse without.
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It really is as simple as that. 100 dogs out looking for bones but only 95 bones in existence - the fact that some dogs must come home without a bone is such a starkly obvious reality that a young child can understand it. If the jobs exist they can be found - if they aren't there at the time, no amount of searching will magically turn up what isn't there.

If they can make people work for the dole then they can re-institute their old (once very successful) approach of government acting as employer of last resort. They don't want to because it runs counter to the prevailing ideology and because some elements in society benefit from the existence of a pool of unemployed.




I didn't realise that police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, paramedics, schoolteachers etc etc etc were not actually out there on the job each day, performing functions that civillization as we know it would collapse without.
He wants an environment created for him where he can safely make money, and he wants it for free. Bloody socialist.
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More incentive for the long term unemployed to try to get on the DSP.
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29 Jul 2014, 09:02 AM
More incentive for the long term unemployed to try to get on the DSP.
They have been doing that for years already zaph.

And I think they government had no problem with it for years, because it allowed them to not report these people as unemployed, so the true unemployment rate would not look as bad as it is.

And thats why we now have more people on disability support than we do on unemployment benefits.

There are all the other rorts too , were somebody who is unemployed and is a friend of a disability support pensioner then claims to be the carer for this person, they then receive more money and don't have to do the dole shit and are no longer reported as unemployed either.

It really is one joke on top of another in not only the way this goes on but how they don't count these people as being unemployed, all they time they are just rorting the lackarse system we have in place.

So unemployment figures would be closer to double what they are now if these jokes were not in place.

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So unemployment figures would be closer to double what they are now if these jokes were not in place.
Ted, UE figures are not based on whether people are receiving the dole.
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