Post by Banjo on Sept 15, 2011 14:06:10 GMT 7
Questions About The Job Center System
My principal concern is about the assessment system and it’s consequences.
From 1 July 2012, Disability Support Pension (DSP) customers under 35 years who have a work capacity of eight or more hours a week will have to meet participation requirements.
So what faces someone who is assessed as being able to work a couple of hours a day, four or five days a week?
Working this out will be the easy part, finding them jobs will not be.
Where are the job centers going to find thousands of part time jobs involving about a day a week in total?
Or maybe two days?
The work’s there, don’t get me wrong… a little filing, some tidying or cleaning, weekend sales… most small businesses pay someone to do that kind of work.
But do they employ them?
Pay them award rate, sick leave, superannuation, annual leave etc etc?
Don’t be silly, of course they don’t, it’s part of the black money economy that’s gone on for years.
So who will get the blame when the jobs aren’t on offer?
Let’s assume (hopefully) that the government won’t offer grants to companies to encourage them to employ DSP recipients because that’s never worked in the past.
So will the Pensioner be blamed if no job is forthcoming? Will he or she remain in the assessment system for years, unable to get on with their life because some Job Centre cannot find them a job?
Will there be a pension cut off point after a certain number of failed interviews?
And what if they do get a job with the required hours?
Eight hours a week of casual employment? If they decide to take a few weeks off for recreational purposes will their pension automatically be stopped while they are away from work?
We need to ask these questions; maybe it’s time for another letter writing campaign.
My principal concern is about the assessment system and it’s consequences.
From 1 July 2012, Disability Support Pension (DSP) customers under 35 years who have a work capacity of eight or more hours a week will have to meet participation requirements.
So what faces someone who is assessed as being able to work a couple of hours a day, four or five days a week?
Working this out will be the easy part, finding them jobs will not be.
Where are the job centers going to find thousands of part time jobs involving about a day a week in total?
Or maybe two days?
The work’s there, don’t get me wrong… a little filing, some tidying or cleaning, weekend sales… most small businesses pay someone to do that kind of work.
But do they employ them?
Pay them award rate, sick leave, superannuation, annual leave etc etc?
Don’t be silly, of course they don’t, it’s part of the black money economy that’s gone on for years.
So who will get the blame when the jobs aren’t on offer?
Let’s assume (hopefully) that the government won’t offer grants to companies to encourage them to employ DSP recipients because that’s never worked in the past.
So will the Pensioner be blamed if no job is forthcoming? Will he or she remain in the assessment system for years, unable to get on with their life because some Job Centre cannot find them a job?
Will there be a pension cut off point after a certain number of failed interviews?
And what if they do get a job with the required hours?
Eight hours a week of casual employment? If they decide to take a few weeks off for recreational purposes will their pension automatically be stopped while they are away from work?
We need to ask these questions; maybe it’s time for another letter writing campaign.
