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Workforce Australia is an Australian Government-funded network of organisations (private and community, and originally also government) that are contracted by the Australian Government, through the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to deliver employment services to unemployed job seekers on Government income support payments and employers.
Work for the Dole is an Australian Government program that is a form of workfare, or work-based welfare. It was first permanently enacted in 1998, having been trialled in 1997. It is one means by which job seekers can satisfy the "mutual obligation requirements" to receive the Newstart Allowance, now replaced by the JobSeeker Payment.
If after an initial three months of unemployment, during which the job seeker has only to hand in the fortnightly application form and record the Job Seeker Diary, the client remains unemployed; the client will be required to attend appointments with a Job Services Australia provider whose responsibility it is to assist the client to re-enter ...
The Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) was an Australian Government employment agency that was established in 1946 with the introduction of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945 under the Curtin ALP government. It was designed to identify labour shortages, and solve them through supplying labour.
Department of Employment and Youth Affairs (5 December 1978 – 7 May 1982) Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (7 May 1982 – 24 July 1987) Department of Employment, Education and Training (24 July 1987 – 11 March 1996) Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (11 March 1996 – 21 October 1998)
The head of the department was the Secretary of the previous Department of Jobs and Small Business, Kerri Hartland. Some of the election commitments of the Morrison Government which the department had oversight of implementing, following the 2019 election, included the creation of 1.25 million jobs, 250,000 new small businesses and 80,000 ...
On 29 May 2019, the Employment and Industrial Relations portfolios were split, with responsibility for Industrial Relations transferring to the Attorney-General's Department and reporting to the Australian Attorney-General, the Hon Christian Porter MP, and the employment portfolio becoming the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family ...
The Australian Department of Employment was a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs that help Australians find and keep employment and work in safe, fair and productive workplaces. [6]