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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”.
“The slashed $615 per fortnight JobSeeker rate announced today [will] … trap 1.4 million people and their kids almost 50% below the poverty line.
“This is not a raise; it is a cut,” O’Connell continued, adding that it will “entrench poverty and lock people out of work for years or decades, as we have seen in every past recession”. O Connell warned of the impact of cuts on peoples’ mental health.
“We don’t believe the government should force anyone to live in poverty and we know the vast majority agrees with us.
“There are not enough jobs. Instead of handing billions of dollars to private organisations who bully, threaten and harass us, the government should be caring for people who are locked out of work,” O’Connell said, referring to the job providers who will be given more power to harass unemployed people.
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THIRD HOLIDAY INN CASE
Victoria’s health department has listed several new potential exposure sites in Sunbury, north-west of Melbourne, as the ABC reports that three people have now tested positive from the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn:
Sunbury Square Shopping Centre (specifically Aldente Deli, Bakers Delight, Sushi Sushi, and Asian Star) from 3:40-4:30pm Friday, February 5
PJ’s Pet Warehouse, Sunbury from 3:37-4:10pm Friday, February 5
Cellarbrations, Sunbury from 6:17-7:02pm Saturday, February 6
and 6:17-7:02pm Sunday, February 7
Sunny Life Massage in Sunbury Square Shopping Centre from 4:30-6:30pm Saturday, February 6
Earlier yesterday,
Dan Andrews confirmed the quarantine worker who tested positive on Sunday has the “UK variant” of the virus and that the working theory for infections at the hotel is aerosol transmission.