What Labor says about unemployment behind closed doors
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What Happens When You Get a Casual Job?
Under the old system, casual jobs count towards what we call our compayments. If you get a casual job placement at the end of four weeks or 28 weeks, so a month or six months, then the government will pay a bonus to the job service provider that has allegedly helped you get that job. People who tend to get these casual jobs are more often than not or as often as not unemployed again within a certain period down the track. So they come back into the unemployment system and then lo and behold, they're eligible one more time for another placement, another insecure job, another bonus payment for the provider,. And so the system continues.
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