bigwideland
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'Too fat for the dole'
From:
November 22, 2005
OVERWEIGHT, jobless people could be forced to go on a diet in order to keep the dole under the Government's welfare changes, it was claimed yesterday.
Unemployed people who were depressed could be required to take medication and disabled people may also have to move house to get closer to suitable work, Opposition employment spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong.
She told a Senate inquiry the new rules removed existing restrictions on what the Government could demand of someone on the dole.
Currently it can require the jobless to undertake activities to improve their employment prospects but the types of activity are limited and have to be agreed to by the dole recipient.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations deputy secretary Graham Carters denied the changes would work this way.
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Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' office described the claim as "fanciful
The life style and right of common Australia is being systematical undermined by the Australia Goverment, from Anti terrorism laws to Work Place Relations Bills to this, what next.
BWL
From:
November 22, 2005
OVERWEIGHT, jobless people could be forced to go on a diet in order to keep the dole under the Government's welfare changes, it was claimed yesterday.
Unemployed people who were depressed could be required to take medication and disabled people may also have to move house to get closer to suitable work, Opposition employment spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong.
She told a Senate inquiry the new rules removed existing restrictions on what the Government could demand of someone on the dole.
Currently it can require the jobless to undertake activities to improve their employment prospects but the types of activity are limited and have to be agreed to by the dole recipient.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations deputy secretary Graham Carters denied the changes would work this way.
Advertisement:
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' office described the claim as "fanciful
The life style and right of common Australia is being systematical undermined by the Australia Goverment, from Anti terrorism laws to Work Place Relations Bills to this, what next.
BWL
