Budget 2014 - changes to dole for under 30's, youth unemployment, homelessness

[cherry*135]

What is the Govt doing, apart from training & education intitiatives to create employment for this group?

There are 257 000 unemployed youth in Australia.

Our local TAFES have had cuts and less courses available.  The unemployed youth in this area is the 2nd highest in NSW. 

[cherry*135]

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@catsnknots wrote:

This has been written about in another thread... I am not going to repeat it but it is basically the same as it is now and if you are making an effort you will be fine 

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No, it is not the same.

A person will only ever be eligible for the dole for 6mths at  a time. There are no jobs for these young job seekers to get in a lot of areas. The minimum waiting period is 1 month.

Students finishing at Uni or TAFE (without much if any work experience) are expected to job hunt for up to 6mths with no income (not elgible for YA if under 25, or NS 25-30). Does that happen now? No, it doesn't

There are not enough jobs for unemployed youth. The could make a stupendous effort and not get a job, and not be eligible for a dole payment for 6mths ( if they leave school and have no prior work experience)... does that happen now? No, it doesn't

[ca04]

@ $2 an hour

[cherry*135]

Spot, yes, you are right.

The promise to create 1m jobs over 5years (from Sept 2013) and 2m over 10 years, is a great comfort to the youth that are unemployed right now.

[cherry*135]

This makes sense (not)

A Ballarat youth services program that helps young Australians remain engaged with education, work and training will cease at the end of 2014 as a result of Federal Government plans to slash funding from the end of this year.

.....in our region you're looking at approximately 1500 (unemployed) young people....

[donnashuggy]

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@am*3 wrote:

What is the Govt doing, apart from training & education intitiatives to create employment for this group?

There are 257 000 unemployed youth in Australia.

Our local TAFES have had cuts and less courses available.  The unemployed youth in this area is the 2nd highest in NSW. 

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The largest complaint I hear from friends is that it is really hard to get a start in a job without experience, I think they should be offering employers more incentive to train young people, I haven't read that they are doing this but I could be wrong, if I am, I apologise.

[cherry*135]

That would be a good idea. At this stage, far as I can see, it is just education & training... which doesn't always lead to a job.

The more people studying and passing courses = the more people with a certificate and higher, it doesn't create more jobs for them to apply for.

[donnashuggy]

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@am*3 wrote:

That would be a good idea. At this stage, far as I can see, it is just education & training... which doesn't always lead to a job.

The more people studying and passing courses = the more people with a certificate and higher, it doesn't create more jobs for them to apply for.

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A lot of jobs really need on site training, I couldn't care less how many degrees or courses someone had done if they came to work for me, most things have to be taught on site anyway to learn systems. I do like the incentive for the over 50's but  they are often already experienced, people need to get a start somehow.

[cherry*135]

It is crazy, new job seekers can't get a job in their chosen field because they don't have experience ( they may have academic quals).

Employers want new staff already trained and ready to go?

[clickbaitoz]

i'm really wondering how they are really going to be saving much money when the work for the dole administration is going to cost them a fortune, unless they get dole bludgers to run the scheme itself then they will probably just send everyone home LOL!

[cherry*135]

$14.9 million for two years, that is not long. Most of the unemployed youth will not be in full time employment after all these programmes and study periods take place...Govt will still by paying them unemployment benefits.

$5.4m of that  ($300 000 x 18?) goes to the job brokers.

The Government will provide $14.9 million over two years to expand the Work for the Dole Programme and pilot Jobs Brokers in 18 of the 21 Priority Employment Areas.

 Each Jobs Broker will have access to an operating budget of $0.3 million to service the selected areas.