Thread: Our latest scheme for getting casual Workers

Originally Posted by Fatso

Is there no one on the Dole up there , any dole recipient should be and is obligated to the tax payers to be available and able to do part time work ??? .

Their obligation is to actively seek all kinds of work, casual, part-time, full time, and to accept any "suitable work" offered to them. Suitable work is defined as having fair award rates of pay and conditions, conducted at reasonable hours, within 1 1/2 hours travel of the client's residence, and the client is capable of performing the work without distress, injury, or exacerbating any conditions they may suffer. Piece work or commission only work is not "suitable work" as it does not pay a wage. If the farmer was unwilling to pay a wage, or retainer plus pay per container then an unemployed person can not be sent there. Much harvest work is payment by bag, bin, basket or whatever container is used.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Their obligation is to actively seek all kinds of work, casual, part-time, full time, and to accept any "suitable work" offered to them. Suitable work is defined as having fair award rates of pay and conditions, conducted at reasonable hours, within 1 1/2 hours travel of the client's residence, and the client is capable of performing the work without distress, injury, or exacerbating any conditions they may suffer. Piece work or commission only work is not "suitable work" as it does not pay a wage. If the farmer was unwilling to pay a wage, or retainer plus pay per container then an unemployed person can not be sent there. Much harvest work is payment by bag, bin, basket or whatever container is used.

Oh I see !!!! , Ah well nothing will change then .

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

within 1 1/2 hours travel of the client's residence

i thought i heard them mention the other day that this may change to 3 hours...

would you also take unmarried mothers with kids to different fathers also.
Equal opportunity employer? Might be an OH&S issue if their pregnant again.

Originally Posted by Fatso

Yep fully agree , only posted in the slight hope that a pollie worth his weight might read it and help the gov clean up this paying useless layabouts to not work , it gets right up my nose . Bit like I know .

Hey! I'm one of those useless layabouts.
If I lived within 1.5 hours from Darwin, I'd sail in Ean's boats. I'd be moving on if something better came along. I think that was one of the issues in the first post.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Hey! I'm one of those useless layabouts.
If I lived within 1.5 hours from Darwin, I'd sail in Ean's boats. I'd be moving on if something better came along. I think that was one of the issues in the first post.

Sorry Mick , it was not my intention to collectively put all unemployed people in the same basket as layabout , I am fully aware of the predicament that people can find themselves in through no fault of there own , I probably should have been more descriptive . I am sure that there are people on the dole in Darwin
who would be more than suitable for the requirement of Ean,s needs if there was some real requirement by the Government to get them off their butts, even if only part time .

Originally Posted by incisor

i thought i heard them mention the other day that this may change to 3 hours...

I heard that on the news this week too. Conversely *P have a policy of not employing anyone who lives more than an hour from where they are required to start and finish due to WH&S/fatigue issues.

* The fifth letter on the *ottom row of my key*oard is out for lunch.

Originally Posted by incisor

i thought i heard them mention the other day that this may change to 3 hours...

Most benos used to have fits about 1 1/2 hours each way. I can just imagine the looks when an interviewer tells them they have to be prepared to travel 3 hours.