annual report<\/a> states: \u201cEmployment results over two years show a declining trend in the outcome rate.\u201d The department blames this on \u201ca growing skills mismatch between unemployed people \u2013 such as those on the Workforce Australia Services caseload \u2013 and job vacancies.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis skills mismatch made it harder to achieve job placements for participants,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n
The CPSU also notes that the employment services system is dominated by only a small handful of providers. Some of whom \u201chave been caught engaging in unethical behaviour, gouging as much money as they can from their already highly lucrative government contracts,\u201d says the union. <\/p>\n
Indeed, media reports have uncovered millions of dollars being skimmed off government contracts as providers pay themselves for moving welfare recipients through jobs and training programs within their own companies. \u201cThis is not value for money, and it is not delivering for Australians who need real support to find secure employment,\u201d says the CPSU.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time to end this failed experiment.<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Employment Service was privatised in\u00a01998\u00a0and replaced with a contracted model where providers are paid for performance. Rebranded a number of times, the employment services system became Workforce Australia in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s time to end this failed experiment and bring back the CES,\u201d Donnelly said.<\/p>\n
The CPSU is calling for \u201ca modern and fit-for-purpose\u201d employment service that provides \u201creal pathways to employment, supports local communities and businesses, and restores integrity to a system that has well and truly lost its way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workforce Australia has been branded \u201ca complete failure\u201d by the public sector union after new figures reveal an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,41882,163266,44,163267],"class_list":["post-282538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cpsu","tag-melissa-donnelly","tag-news","tag-workforce-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}