The Greens say that the Government\u2019s reporting line dubbed the \u2018DobSeeker\u2019 is an abuse of power that will hurt the most vulnerable in our community.
\n\u201cThis is all part of the sick obsession this Government has with blaming and demonising people for not having a job in the midst of a recession and a pandemic.
\n\u201cThe Job Provider system (Jobactive) is already rife with bullying, harassment, of people being ignored or treated very poorly by their job providers and now the Government is empowering employers with the means to intimidate and bully Jobseekers.
\n\u201cThe Government is doing next to nothing about this but blame people who can\u2019t find work that doesn\u2019t exist.
\n\u201cJobactive Providers are being paid billions to help find jobs when we have 1.5 million people on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance and 175,000 jobs available.
\n\u201cIn April there will be 1.5 million people on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance having to search for 15 jobs per month.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s 22,500,00 job applications per month in a job market with 175,000 jobs available. This will go up to 30,000,000 once people have to apply for 20.
\n\u201cHas the Government consulted with businesses and employers on how they are going to manage that?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens say that the Government\u2019s reporting line dubbed the \u2018DobSeeker\u2019 is an abuse of power that will hurt the most vulnerable in our community. \u201cThis is all part of the sick obsession this Government has with blaming and demonising people for not having a job in the midst of a recession and a pandemic. … Continue reading “\u2018DobSeeker\u2019 hotline is an abuse of power”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}