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[nomadic]

Albanese offers no relief for jobseekers

Excerpts:- For example, every unemployed person placed in a Work for the Dole program earns the job provider a $500 “placement” fee. PaTH internships and National Work Experience Program placements are worth $1000 to a job provider. Participants referred for EST are either partly or fully funded by the taxpayer at $1250 a pop, with a $250 “placement” fee to the job network provider. CTA fees are between $1800 and $2250, fully funded by the government.For example, every unemployed person placed in a Work for the Dole program earns the job provider a $500 “placement” fee. PaTH internships and National Work Experience Program placements are worth $1000 to a job provider. Participants referred for EST are either partly or fully funded by the taxpayer at $1250 a pop, with a $250 “placement” fee to the job network provider. CTA fees are between $1800 and $2250, fully funded by the government.

Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O’Connell told The Saturday Paper that “mutual obligations exist because if they didn’t the industry would not get profit”. She continued: “That is the only reason they exist. People don’t get jobs through this system. So, it is very clear that the public money being spent on it is entirely to serve the interests of private organisations who donate to political parties.”

More than $226 million has been handed to atWork Australia Pty Ltd, a company whose directors are all based in the United States. The outfit is owned by MedHealth, which is in turn owned by US-based ExamWorks, which is itself majority owned by private equity giants CVC Capital Partners. That Medicare compliance business “serves a global customer base of property and casualty insurers, law firms, third-party claim administrators and government agencies across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada”.

Before July this year, AimBig was solely involved in the Disability Employment Services system, which is similar to but separate from the old jobactive. In 2019, the business, founded and controlled by Marcella Romero, created a training program named BusyBeans to teach participants with disabilities how to become baristas and barista trainers.

AimBig was contracted by the federal government to provide the employment services. It then sent some participants to its subsidiary Rehab Management, where the BusyBeans program was hosted. Rehab Management then struck an arrangement with an external company, TLH Recruitment, a labour hire business, to hire the bulk of the BusyBeans barista trainers as “in-house” baristas.

TLH would pay the hourly rate and superannuation of the “employees”, but this was directly reimbursed by Rehab Management. In addition, TLH charged a management fee and was provided with $111,000 in taxpayer-funded wage subsidies paid directly to it by AimBig. The BusyBeans program ran for precisely 26 weeks. In all, AimBig received $874,832 outcome payments “in respect of milestones achieved by the BusyBeans participants”. Within a day or two of the program ending, participants “had their employment terminated”.

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www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/16/albanese-offers-no-relief-jobseekers?fbclid=IwAR3M5mhGzFS9E_IYN7yMwh-UaV25rRdj-UvZBbhMLKZItwyF2t7HquJEbmw#mtr

[bear]

Reading that just reinforced a suspicion, that something bad has happened at CERN and we are living in a parallel universe living an alternate reality.

Fellow human beings on the planet I grew up on, don't structure and manage businesses in the manner described and go unpunished, surely to goodness...... And imo, Albo's press photos have begun looking somewhat reptilian of late.  Cheers 🐻

[genx]

I'm not surprised, since it was the Gillard Labor government that tightened the screws on DSPers in the first place.