The Australian government is about to put up to 80,000 more people on work for the dole programmes. This is a big undertaking given there are only 4,000 on the them currently. According to Centrelink (WINZ equivalent);
Work for the Dole is about helping job seekers improve their employment prospects by providing opportunities for work experience. Communities are involving job seekers in local projects providing facilities and services of value to the community.
Work for the Dole placements cover a wide range of activities, such as heritage and/or history, the environment, community care, tourism, sport, providing community services and restoring and maintaining community services and facilities.
NZ Labour has constantly bagged the scheme, describing it as failed ;
"Early data shows 30 per cent of job seekers who do full time work for the dole either go on to a part-time job or leave income support completely, compared to only 14 per cent of similar job seekers who did not do full time work for the dole," Dr Stone said in a statement.
Double the success rate isn't failing.
The trouble with job creation schemes is they are expensive and they compete with the private sector. I would rather see people in private sector jobs, even if they are subsidised for a time.
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It's probably not about job creation, but if people have to work for a benefit you tend to have a lot fewer of them applying. That's where the value is.
We already have the equivalent here with the 24,000 work placements the Labour Government has created.
Placements where?
Subsidised jobs are a bad idea all round. There is a better alternative. Beneficiaries (including sickness and invalid and possibly DPB) could be required to daily attend Learning centres where they teach skills to EACH OTHER! Reading, writing, basic arithmetic, how to use the internet, and many other topics could be nominated.
The running costs of these centres would be largely if not entirely covered by the decline in benefit claimants, as all those persons not really otherwise idle lost their entitlements through none attendance.
Just think of the sense of worth that genuine invalid beneficiaries would get from teaching others to read and write, and the secondary benefit that the genuine beneficiaries would no longer be dogged by association with layabouts and parasites masquerading as their equals (my guess is that these types would rather get a job than spend their days at a learning centre). As a matter of fact, I can think of numerous advantages with such a scheme - but I won't go on.
Dave Christian
Dave, I only support subsidised work in preference to straight handouts.
Like your idea, especially with respect to finding a way for the genuine to avoid getting tarred with same brush as the parasites. That always concerns me deeply.
I've long thought that those on the DPB could be running childcare co-operatives which would eventually become private affairs. One DPB mum can care for four or five DPB kids allowing 2 or 3 parents to work part or fulltime.
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