Work for the dole scrapped

Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash has quashed reports the work for the dole scheme will be scrapped. EMPLOYMENT Minister Michaelia Cash has moved to quash reports that the work for the dole program could be axed in the May budget. Labor has given its strongest indication yet that it will scrap the Work-for-the-Dole program if electe warning the industry that the business case for the program is less than clear and. Rachel Siewert , the Greens Family and Community Services spokeswoman , was “pleased” the crackdown had been scrapped.

The ACTU has renewed calls for the Community Development Program to be scrapped after a Senate inquiry into the Program found that the program is causing harm to its overwhelmingly Indigenous workforce.

The racist work-for-the-dole scheme does not pay wages for the hours of work participants have to do every week in order. With work for the dole , if they refuse, they lose their entitlements. They could lose all income, so it’s very, very unlikely they’d question instructions.

But yeah, fully agree that they should be trained for a job , rather than used as cheap pleb workers. Should Work For The Dole be scrapped ? We’re at Silverburn with all the latest on the evacuation of the shopping centre following. Labor’s national conference has committed to abolishing the Abbott government’s controversial Indigenous work-for-the dole scheme and replacing it with a fairer program.

Racist work for the dole scheme is causing real harm A Senate committee inquiry into the Community Development Programme (CDP) — supposedly covering remote employment and community development — has found it causes real harm to people and communities. It is a racist work for the dole scheme and it must be scrapped. Aboriginal work for the dole programs will be scrapped in urban areas and overhauled in remote regions in an attempt to get indigenous Australians off welfare and into real jobs.

Making people work for the dole will hopefully make people less fussy and work in the less desirable jobs like labouring or even encourage people to move to a less desirable area to gain employment. After indicating that it would lift Australia’s appallingly low unemployment benefits, Labor has flagged that it would scrap the Coalition’s $million a year Work-for-the-Dole program if. Under the Howard Government the scheme was compulsory and targeted the long-term unemployed. Shortly after the Rudd Government was formed it became voluntary. The Senate report included recommended changes, saying the scheme must drop its “onerous obligations” to ensure A Senate committee inquiry into the Community Development Programme (CDP) — supposedly covering remote employment and community development — has found it causes real harm to people and communities.

Called ‘work for the dole’, it required men with teenage children completing high school to leave their towns and work in other towns in demeaning jobs for little money, and teenage girls to apply for forty jobs a month for six months in return for no pay whatever, not even their bus fares to interviews. Work for the Dole is set to expand enormously as a consequence of the Federal Budget. One reason Work For the Dole is the main focus, is the income of providers is based on either the limited real job outcomes or work for dole outcomes. But education outcomes will provide them with nothing, so they will not be at all interested in telling you any of these options.

I don’t follow UK politics as closely as I might, so I didn’t realise the Tories had scrapped Labour’s Job Guarantee, exactly following the Australian model to which I referred. People on the dole are required to do community work like picking up litter, removing graffiti etc. The dole was meant to stop people suffering hardship it now affords them a way of not having to work !

As the dole is to assist those out of work it makes sense to either help them keep the work ethic or train them back into it. Help to work – and in return work for the dole – because a fair welfare system is fair to those who need it and fair to those who pay for it too. Ben speaks to Corinne Dobson, the St Vincent De Paul National Policy Officer about whether the work for the dole program should be scrapped.

DOLE Jobs: Our Services, Bureaus, and Regional Offices. Sydney’s lockout laws scrapped. It is a work experience program which places job seekers in activities where they can build new skills, experience and confidence to move from welfare to work while giving back to their community.

The NHS needs to be scrapped. State Pensions should be scrapped. Euthanasia should be made legal. Eugenics should form the basis of entitlement to welfare. Forced to work hours a week to continue receiving payments for rent This means they will be paid just $10.

Minimum wage will go up $18.