Advice Morrison and Abetz will surely ignore in favour of their ideological agenda: The chief executive of Jobs Australia, David Thompson, said the government needed to shift the focus from welfare-to-work programs to reskilling the jobless. “We need to invest not just in training, but also in work experience for these people,” Thompson said. He said service providers were now unable to use government money to put people in training unless it was for a specific job. “The government’s got to get the economy firing so that there are jobs being created,” Thompson said. “We need to be looking at where opportunities will be for training and future employment opportunities.” He said the idea that unemployed people were “bludgers” was “far, far from the truth” and that most jobless people were desperate to find work. Maree O’Halloran, from the National Welfare Rights Network said the welfare-to-work program was “morally wrong [and] doesn’t solve the unemployment problem”. “[The program] is intended to have a shaming effect,” O’Halloran said. “It’s designed to have stigma attached to being unemployed.” She said there were five people looking for every job advertised, and the government should focus on job creation rather than welfare measures. Read more: theguardian/business/2015/jan/02/welfare-to-work-programs-have-failed-to-reduce-unemployment-says-report?CMP=soc_567
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:12:58 +0000
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