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The Morrison government’s new hotline allows employers to report jobseekers for rejecting employment offers, bad behaviour in interviews, missing appointments or voluntarily quitting.
The Scott Morrison Government’s new Employer Reporting Line, labelled the “dobseeker” hotline by critics, allows employers to dob in jobseekers not only for rejecting employment offers but for behaving badly in interviews, missing appointments or voluntarily quitting their job. The scope exceeds what the government foreshadowed in February when it announced a phone number for bosses to report jobseekers who turned down “suitable” job offers. Launched earlier this month, the hotline also allows employers to notify the government if a jobseeker has “demonstrated misconduct or unsuitable behaviour at a job interview”, “submitted an inappropriate job application”, “failed to attend an interview” or “voluntarily left a suitable job”.