Commitment to review welfare rules for unemployed people has lifted expectations the government will axe requirements such as work for the dole
  • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Long overdue, although the wording doesn’t seem to be at all certain:

    Labor will review the nature and extent of mutual obligations and develop a revised approach that provides the help people need and is based on trust and shared accountabilities for government, service providers and job seekers.

    “Shared accountabilities” sounds a lot like mutual obligations, so I hope the actual implementation does cut WFTD (and other pointless and punitive busy work).

    Also, Dutton showing how in touch with the times he is:

    In May the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, called for work for the dole to be reinstated, apparently unaware that the program still exists.