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AUWU Speaks Your Language! Interpreters Now Available

The AUWU is proud to announce that we have secured the services of the Australian government’s Translation and Interpreting Service (TIS).

This means that we will be able to arrange for an interpreters for members who do not speak English.

If you would like to arrange for an interpreter to speak to one of our advocates, please fill in our job agency advocacy inquiry form here.

If you need help in relation to a DSP issue, please fill out our DSP inquiry form here.

Employment services: a broken system that breaks people

Australia’s mutual obligation system is broken and is breaking people – say the findings of the Mutual Obligation survey. 

AUWU President Hayden Patterson said:

“The results of this report are a shocking indictment of the employment services system and fly in the
face of what we’ve been told unemployed workers want and need to help them get jobs.

This is the first quantitative survey of this kind that has been made possible by the strength of the
AUWU’s membership. With over 650 individual responses it is statistically significant, and contains
more data from job seekers than the government’s own expert panel report.

The results clearly show that current Mutual Obligation requirements are punitive and that the
majority of job seekers do not get any benefit from employment services. In particular, respondents
indicated a high level of dissatisfaction at the kind of activities that went into in their job plan. The
results also showed there was very little choice over activities and that job seekers were not listened
to about what they wanted to do.

The AUWU said:

“We call on the Government to undertake an urgent review of these unfair and punitive Mutual
Obligation requirements that are causing needless suffering to thousands of ordinary Australians
every day.

Final report available here: Mutual Obligation Survey Results.

 

Media Inquiries – Jeremy Poxon Jeremy.poxon@auwu.org.au
Survey background -Simone Casey simone.casey@auwu.org.au

AUWU Committee of Management Position Descriptions

President

Tasks

  • Understand, approve and review AUWU annual plan
  • Attend monthly Committee of Management video conference meetings
  • Facilitate / convene Committee of Management meetings
  • Facilitate / convene National Steering Committee meetings
  • Coach / mentor National Coordinator regularly and other CoM members as needed
  • Attend meetings with stakeholders as required

Estimate of minimum hourly commitment per week: 6-10 hours

Secretary

Tasks

  • Understand, approve and review AUWU annual plan
  • Attend monthly Committee of Management video conference meetings and submit a report for consideration
  • Attend Monthly National Steering Committee teleconference
  • Register with relevant state body
  • Manage correspondence
  • Manage minutes
  • Manage membership
  • Manage record keeping

Estimate of minimum hourly commitment per week: 6-10 hours

Treasurer

Tasks

  • Understand, approve and review AUWU annual plan
  • Attend monthly Committee of Management video conference meetings and submit a report for consideration
  • Attend Monthly National Steering Committee teleconference
  • Manage finances
  • Maintain financial records

Estimate of minimum hourly commitment per week:  6-10 hours

Vice President

Tasks

  • Understand, approve and review AUWU annual plan
  • Attend monthly Committee of Management video conference meetings and submit a report for consideration
  • Attend Monthly National Steering Committee teleconference
  • Assist President, Secretary and Treasurer as needed
  • Attend meetings with stakeholders as required

Estimate of minimum hourly commitment per week: 6-10 hours

Ordinary Committee of Management Members (2)

Tasks

  • Understand, approve and review AUWU annual plan
  • Attend monthly Committee of Management video conference meetings
  • Further tasks as agreed by the Committee of Management

Estimate of minimum hourly commitment per week: 4-10 hours