AUWU Policy Blog: Fighting back with a seat at the table

February 22, 2016 BYLINE: EXCLUSIVE: DANIEL MEERS SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 279 words A LOOPHOLE in the nation’s $7.5 billion welfare system is letting dole bludgers turn down good job offers without incurring a penalty that was originally designed to suspend their payments for eight weeks every time they did it. The lazy bludgers are rejecting jobs because “shifts fall on their golf day” or they don’t want “to work hard” or “the office smelt funny”, according to secret documents

Sandor Szolnoki, AUWU Member Attention everyone: recently i was placed into a Work for the Dole (wftd) activity which was ok basically just painting a gymnasium, the supervisors on that project were good but that activity stopped after 2 months I had completed I was risk assessment prior and even trained in manual handling. Now I’ve been placed into a new wfd that is renovating a old house without been risk assessed which i have

I am writing this letter on behalf of my Austistic son who has nominated me as a spokesperson since he is on the brink of suicide again and is unable to put his owns words into any understandable order. I don’t even know how to deal with it myself, since he inherited the Autism gene from me (I’m on DSP incidentally). My son’s story to date is almost identical to Leigh Markovic’s story. My son was

Sourced from Centrelink’s “A Guide to Australian Government Payments 20 September – 31 December 2016” Income Support Bonus The Income Support Bonus is a tax-free payment made twice annually to eligible recipients to assist with unexpected costs. Qualifying payments include Newstart Allowance, Sickness Allowance, Youth Allowance, Austudy, ABSTUDY Living Allowance, Special Benefit, Parenting Payment Single, Parenting Payment Partnered and Farm Household Allowance. Recipients of an education allowance under the Veterans’ Children Education Scheme and the

VICTORIA NUGENT, Townsville Bulletin November 8, 2016 1:00am Subscriber only ONE  of Townsville’s biggest job agencies has received dismal ratings in a newly released Department of Employment report card. Max Employment has rec­eived one-star ratings for its Kirwan and Townsville services and two stars for its Aitkenvale operation. The ratings were revealed in a document outlining the September star ratings of job­active providers across the country. Townsville’s other two job­active providers are NEATO Emp­loyment Services