The Latest Breaking News from Workforce Australia

Jobseeker’s experience with job agencies left his mental health so poor he could not work

Nathan, now on disability support, says job providers did little to help his search while they claimed thousands of dollars each time he found work on his own

The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2022

Jobseekers receiving Centrelink payments say they're being 'penalised' for studying

One month into the rollout of the new $7 billion Workforce Australia system, jobseekers and students are reporting mass confusion and inconsistencies.

ABC News · Aug 10, 2022

In Australia’s welfare sector obligations are ‘mutual’, but profits flow only one way

As vast network of job agencies rakes in hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars, jobseekers face ‘humiliating’ tasks to maintain payments

The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2022

Parliament to examine Workforce Australia

The federal parliament will investigate changes made to the program by the former Liberal-National coalition government.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

‘It felt insulting’: welfare recipients sent to body language courses as job agencies profit

Providers in the welfare-to-work system are making lucrative earnings by enrolling clients into their own taxpayer-funded programs

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2022

Workforce Australia job agencies rake in millions more from training contracts

Department of employment intended to ban practice before reversing course after ‘strong feedback’ from industry

The Guardian - AU · Jul 26, 2022

A 120km drive to job agency: confusion reigns over Australia’s jobseeker requirements, union says

Hundreds responded to an Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union survey reporting issues from lack of information to unreasonable demands

The Guardian - AU · Jul 23, 2022

Jobseeker asked to choose between work and job agency appointments under Workforce Australia system

Multiple complaints of baffling and unrealistic requirements have been reported as being set by employment agencies under the new program

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21, 2022

Sixty-three-year-old jobseeker forced to make 250km round trip to keep welfare benefits

Woman from Yorketown in South Australia has been referred to a job agency in Kadina under new Workforce Australia program

The Guardian - AU · Jul 16, 2022

Jobseeker forced to travel 60km to keep payments under new welfare program

Another says experience of new points-based system has been ‘humiliating and degrading’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 14, 2022