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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Key Labor MP urges new independent watchdog for job services providers

Julian Hill
Labor MP Julian Hill says Australia should establish an employment services quality commission, which would also oversee pricing. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Job services providers should face a new regulator with powers to oversee pricing and quality, according to the government chair of an inquiry into employment services.

The era of “massive multibillion-dollar ‘set and forget’ tenders” is over, the Labor MP Julian Hill has warned the National Employment Services Association, the peak body for providers responsible for enforcing mutual obligations on jobseekers, on Wednesday.

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