Mutual obligations will be different for every welfare recipient, the employment minister says, signalling an end to jobseekers being forced to submit “endless” applications for roles they may not be qualified for.
But welfare advocates and a key trade union have said Labor’s employment system changes don’t go far enough and fall short of the reform needed in the failure-plagued sector. They have called for an end to the privatised job services model, which Amanda Rishworth admits is not providing enough help.
