Socrates wrote on May 29
th, 2013 at 4:04pm:
IMO 'Work for a Dole Payment" is not unreasonable if it works but there's got to be some other incentive to motivate the long term unemployed to be useful members of society. Australia likes to impose compulsory voting, why not compulsory training for other jobs? After 12 months if progress is zero, again periodic evaluation and counselling, then all payments cease.
The unemployed who genuinely want work WILL retrain, or find something which will allow them to live reasonably well with the prospect of advancement. The others are just smacking useless and if that's the case the only answer is no work no money, work for their dole or NO DOLE.
So in your eyes a person that does all the Training provided, does all the mutual obligation activities, as well as just volunteering in the community is a USELESS person.
And the Government can decide to destroy their lives by not allowing them access to job serach to be able to climb out of the hole of unemployment and use their Skills and abilitys, because their just useless people.
Been retraining for years, still no help coming my way.
Oh and no respect for the retraining.
HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU EXPECT OUT OF MUTUAL OBLIGATION, i THINk $250000 OF VALUE IS ENOUGH TO EARN SOME RESPECT FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND MORE PARTICULARLY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
No fix the problem what these trained people arn't being considered for Employment, and it isn't a problem in the Unemployed person head.
Think about it.