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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]
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.
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.
The Department of Employment became the Department of Jobs and Small Business; The Department of Immigration and Border Protection became the Department of Home Affairs; The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development became the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities
From the end of the Second World War until 1975, Australian governments had a policy of full employment – from 1946 the Commonwealth Employment Service assisted a quarter of the workforce in finding paid employment that was suited to them, helping to keep the unemployment rate very low. [8]
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 Department of Social Security (the DSS) was a government department in Australia, which administered the Social Security system between 1972 and 1998. [3] The department was one of several new departments established by the Whitlam government and was managed by the Minister for Social Security .
Job security, as part of social security, is a universal human right in international law, [205] and with full employment it is the basis of economic stability and prosperity. Most Australian employees are entitled to reasonable notice before any dismissal, fair reasons and a procedure before being dismissed, and a redundancy payment.