Jobactive workers speak out: 'How the hell did I end up doing this to these people?'

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"About 400,000 unemployed Australians are obliged to engage with
Jobactive, the government’s main employment services program, in order
to keep their social security payment.

Since the late 1990s, Australia has paid private companies and
non-profits to run the 1,800 job centres around the country. They are
tasked with getting people into work.

In February this year the Jobactive network was the subject of a Senate
inquiry which heard from those who work within the system about the high
turnover of staff, impossible caseloads, low levels of training,
mistreatment by consultants and a lack of engagement from employers.

Here, three people who have worked for Jobactive providers speak about
the failings in the system. They have all chosen to remain anonymous
because they fear for their jobs."

This is what so-called “compassionate conservatism” is really about:
exploiting the most vulnerable members of society for profit, ignoring
the cost to those people and to the economy.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics