Australian Govt plans further crackdown on dole system?

Question

News Article:
The Federal Government claims most people on the Newstart allowance are "job snobs", refusing to take work.
Centrelink will be given more powers to contact employers whom jobseekers claim to have approached for work.
Newstart recipients are already required to keep a diary of their attempts to find a job, including employers' names and phone numbers. Centrelink can cut welfare recipients who do not meet these requirements.
Question:
I worked for Centrelink for 6 years and found that there were a number of people that were bludgers, and a number of people that took what ever job they could find.
Are you, or do you know someone that is a job snob?
Are there jobs in your area that seem to go unfilled, although Centrelink lines are constantly busy?
What do you think about having 'skilled migrants' brought into Aust. Instead of training the already unemployed?

I left Centrelink to start my own business and am now self employed.

Answer 1

If you leave school, don't go to uni and haven't found gainful employment in 12 months, straight into the army for 12 months... No one can tell me there are NO jobs out there, they can however tell me they aren't prepared to lower their expectations and take a lesser job in the interim. Either way, I hate payiing for them... There is NO reason not to be employed within 12 months of leaving school.

Answer 2

I have been employed the majority of my life, but I think I could be a job snob? I dont think I could clean toilets...I dont think that could give me job satisfaction at all. I think the problem lies in the lack of self esteem of lots of people who are unemployed. Instead of making them find any kind of job, maybe Centrelink would be better off running self esteem courses which will give a person the confidence to look and find a job of their choice, and if they havent got the qualifications, then they can go to TAFE to get them. I believe it is a persons right to be able to have an income and I also believe we also have a right to choose, and I certainly would not feel good about myself if I was forced to take a job for example cleaning and showering mental patients. I could no sooner wipe a strangers bum than fly. I think these kind of rules are setting the unemployed up to fail.

As for skilled migrants being brought into Australia, it just shows what Howard is really like. He is not interested in the young unemployed...he is interested in business and doing the right thing by them, not the people who need the training. You just have to look at the AWA to know what Howard really stands for. He couldnt give a sheet about the worker. Its the businesses that fund and support him, so the workers are not really important in his scheme of things Lots more money should be spent on teaching people skills and not concentrating so much on getting a person a job at any cost. I think a person has the right to be a job snob. Its just an excuse anyway because the Government wont spend the money on getting the average Australian skilled. Howard should be thrown out ASAP...but then I doubt very much whether Beazley will do anything either. A new party who really cares about the rights of the unemployed and who are prepared to spend more money on training should be formed. It wouldnt take much really because I think most Australians are sick to death of the "popular" political parties. Howard has a lot to answer for. He is the reason people in power have the audacity to call people job snobs. Its a disgrace actually and is no way to give a person self respect and confidence. If they are forced to take a lowly, dispicable job, then they will only be unemployed in a few weeks time anyway. There are always people who will do those kinds of jobs and the ones who cant should not be forced, but trained instead to do something they will get some kind of job satisfaction from.

Answer 3

I don't know anyone who is job snob thank god. I don't think I would want to know one either. What is the point of living if you don't have a job or at least volunteer your time for something.

There are many jobs in the local area that go unfilled. Jobs with the most basic of skills that anyone could do yet they still sit there on their butt.

I think we shouldn't bring over skilled employees - it's just another way for the bludgers to get around it. I definately think that they should train up the unemployed otherwise what is the point of them. I understand some people cannot work for medical reasons etc but what are the others excuse.

I'd be better off on the dole than what I am getting paid in my job currently but I am hanging in there knowing that in time I will be able to make more money.

Answer 4

good for thr aussies