Employers, Job networks & business groups are behind the push to get the Disabled & unemployed into the workforce by hook or by crock as they know its their biggest cash cow.
With all the government payments & incentives ( scams ) the job network wants the compulsory job search requirements extended coz if more people are forced top join a job network. Then The job networks will make more cash, for (( short term & unsustainable )) employment outcomes & educational outcomes.
As for the business industries & business overall ........ well they just see the cash payments the government gives them for employing the long term unemployed as yet another means of profiteering & reducing their tax liability's.
We know it's a scam.
The Government knows it's a scam.
& Business knows it's a scam.
As has already been said. They sell off Australia's assets, Such as QANTAS< the Commonwealth bank, Airports & train stations, Roads & Soon Medibank private, Australia post the Snowy River hydro, & the ABC T.V & Radio & the SBS t.v & Radio .... Put All the workers out off a job. Sell off the farm & approve the foreign takeovers off Australia's household brands such as Cottees, vegimight, Fosters, AWB, ABB, SPC Ardmona, Golden Circle, CRS, National Foods, Goodman-Filder, (( Graincorp )) ect ect
They sell out the Australian farmers & sell off Australia's minerals & oil/gas.
Put half the country out off work, then open the flood gates to cheap foreign labor. Via 457 visa's from 3erd world countries, Such as India, Sri Lanka, Syria, Iran, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, New Zealand, Italy, Greece, England, Ireland, USA, Mexico, Spain & the rest off the Bankrupt world. Thus lowering wages. thus forcing even more Australian's onto welfare.
Allow these foreign workers to bring their entire family over & allow them to all go onto welfare payments & to send their kids to our tax payer funded schools for free on the Australian tax payers dime.
& then they turn around a spout that there are to many Australian's on welfare.
Well all i can say is Business best watch their mouth an change their attitude coz it just their actions' just might come back around an bite them in the arse one day. (( what goes around comes around ))
Economists warn of disability pension blow-out
2nd May 2013.
DAVID MARK: Melbourne economists are warning of a possible blow-out in the number of disability support pensioners.
The researchers say the pension has increased, making it more generous than some other welfare payments. And it can also be easier to get than the Newstart and parenting payments which have had their criteria tightened recently.
The economists say the disability support pension scheme cost nearly $15 billion in the last year. They say given the budget deficit, Australia must learn from other countries which are already tackling unsustainable schemes.
Samantha Donovan reports.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Economists from the University of Melbourne say 800,000 Australians are on the disability support pension. But they're expecting that number to shoot up to a million within a decade.
Associate Professor Roger Wilkins.
ROGER WILKINS: In recent years, we have seen a growth in the number of people on the disability benefit. And partly that's reflected what we might call a benefit shift. So, the proportion of people with disability on welfare has actually been declining, but the number on the DSP has been increasing.
And what's brought that about is shifts from other benefits, such as the Newstart allowance and parenting payment, for a couple of reasons. One is that eligibility criteria for those payments have been tightened and activity test requirements and the like have also been increased for those payments.
There's also been, with regards to the unemployment benefit, a widening gap between the level of the DSP benefit and the unemployment benefit. So that's created some economic incentives for people to shift from that benefit onto the DSP.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: What actually are the criteria to get a disability support pension?
ROGER WILKINS: This is a matter of constant revision. Certainly the fastest growing area of disability receipt relates to mental illnesses, although they are still not the dominant reason for entry on to the DSP, the dominant reason is still physical impairments.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Which sectors of the community are you finding are increasingly getting the disability support pension?
ROGER WILKINS: For many years now disability pension receipt has been overwhelmingly concentrated amongst lower skilled and older, sort of 45 and over, people. That's a phenomenon that has continued.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: And I believe your research found that women reaching retirement age are also increasingly applying for and getting the disability support pension?
ROGER WILKINS: Right, and that's another factor that has produced this shift of, benefit shift. Since 1995 the age of eligibility for the aged pension has been increasing by half a year every two years for women, up to the male age of 65. And each time that six month increase has occurred, we've seen a surge in inflows into the disability benefit from women in that age range. And so that's been a quite significant factor actually in the growth in female disability benefit receipt.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: You and your co-author are urging Australia to be mindful of the experiences of other countries. What's happened in those countries?
ROGER WILKINS: So growth in disability roles is by no means unique to Australia. This is an international phenomenon. And we have seen other countries making efforts to counter this growth, particularly noteworthy are The Netherlands and Sweden where they've had in recent years quite a bit of success in reducing the number of inflows onto their disability benefit.
In The Netherlands I think there's potentially useful lesson for Australia. There they have had a lot of success by shifting some of the costs of disability benefit receipt onto employers. So the first two years of disability benefit receipt that cost is born by employers.
Employers also pay an experience-rated disability tax; so the more of their workers that end up on the disability benefits, the higher that tax is. So this has really improved incentives for employers to keep their disabled workers employed and to rehabilitate people who acquire a disability and find ways of incorporating them into their workforces.
So this type of early intervention strategy has been particularly successful in The Netherlands and it's probably something Australia that could do well to look at.DAVID MARK: Associate Professor Roger Wilkins from the University of Melbourne was speaking with Samantha Donovan.
www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3839303.htm