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

The subject of this article and the treatment Leigh Markovic endured by Max Employment is exactly the same mental abuse I was subjected to by Max in my short time I was forced to be aligned with them. I cannot stay quiet about what they did to me any longer, and people have a right to know about it and that it is not an odd isolated incident, but commonplace as well as ILLEGAL. Their

I have found my own work experience for 2 days per week, from January 2016 onwards. I was happy with the work experience, but my health had started to suffer in ways I could never have imagined. I hadn’t known it yet, but I had started going through the very severe symptoms of menopause. In February 2016, the job provider tried to bully me into obtaining employment with the place I was doing work experience

21 January 2016 By Daniel, AUWU member. Today was our second day on work for the dole. The first day was hot: 32 degrees, no biggie. Today, it was 34.9 degrees at 11.30, currently writing this at 2.20 pm it is 39 degrees. Yesterday we all discussed what action would take place once the temperature hit a certain point. Our supervisors said that if the temperature reached 35 degrees we would be sent home due to the nature

Dear Human Services, Who are you? Define Human Services: “ Human Services are those jobs which provide a Service to Society, particularly in times of crisis. Human Services are designed to help people navigate through crisis or chronic situations where the person feels they need external help and guidance to move forward with their life and rediscover their personal power and self-sufficiency. Sometimes the situation the person needs help with is external, such as the

I would like to lodge a formal complaint on my job active provider Advanced Personal Management (APM) in Sydney and I would like this issue to be investigated by the department. My job agent has reported I have failed to attend an appointment on 7/Oct and has placed a “blockage” that according to Centrelink is preventing them from processing my Austudy claim. I went to an appointment anon that day but not at 3pm but at 3:09pm