O’Dwyer announces expansion of youth exploitation scheme   :(
17 December 2018
ACTU

     O’Dwyer announces expansion of youth exploitation scheme

The Morrison Government will expand the PaTH ‘internship’ program, a scheme which pays private businesses to use a pool of vulnerable unemployed young people as free labour.

Participants in the program are paid $4 per hour for their work, which undermines the availability of genuine entry level roles.

The Minister claims that 100,000 young people found a job in the last financial year, ignoring the fact that in the last 18 months the Government has only managed to force 4,785 people through the PaTH program.

PaTH and similar programs, like the CDP replace real, paying jobs with unpaid positions by providing companies with free labour. The Morrison Government is continuing to facilitate a race to the bottom on wages.

Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary Sally McManus:

“This Government is paying for-profit businesses to exploit young people. It’s outrageous and the scheme must be scrapped.

“The PaTH program doesn’t provide jobs or legal wages, it doesn’t prepare young people for work, it punishes them for the Morrison government’s failure to create enough ongoing secure jobs and apprenticeships.

“If the Morrison Government was serious about helping young people into work it would return the billions it has cut from vocational training, TAFE and apprenticeships.

“Programs like PaTH are why we are watching a generation of workers grow up without knowing what a good, steady job looks like. Young workers need secure work.

“We need to change the rules so that the next generation of workers have better pay and more secure jobs not $4 an hour internships.”

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“The PaTH program doesn’t provide jobs or legal wages, it doesn’t prepare young people for work, it punishes them for the Morrison government’s failure to create enough ongoing secure jobs and apprenticeships.   :(

so where are the unions providing secure jobs crook????

cods wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 7:41am:

so where are the unions providing secure jobs crook????

Since when has it been the unions job?

cods wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 7:41am:

so where are the unions providing secure jobs crook????

That's not what unions do. Their job is to ensure that ppl aren't ripped off in their jobs not to acquire those jobs

Spot

cods wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 7:41am:

so where are the unions providing secure jobs crook????

Not the Union's job - their job is to protect rights in jobs and make them sure and keep them that way.  A Union can only employ as many people as it needs, and the 'government' is always crowing about the jobs it 'creates' in a vacuum.

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Some feel full employment in the era of automation is a myth.

Ignore McManus ... agree with the thrust....

Election Year... Da Boats... Da Labor Spending ... Beat On The Unemployed ... We'll All Be Rooned ... Look At LNP's Economic Management (scrub that one) .... It's Labor's Fault ..... It's Mal's Fault .....

Just exploitation and getting the kids attuned to living on nothing like the good little peasants they are born to be .....

Term Dog wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 8:08am:

Some feel full employment in the era of automation is a myth.

Fine - let them go down that path - the problems will not go away - a rise in unemployment means fewer buyers and a rise in wages for the employed to be able to buy in a diminishing market.....

$4 per hour?

I thought slavery was illegal?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 8:14am:

Term Dog wrote on Dec 18th, 2018 at 8:08am: Some feel full employment in the era of automation is a myth. Fine - let them go down that path - the problems will not go away - a rise in unemployment means fewer buyers and a rise in wages for the employed to be able to buy in a diminishing market.....

It isn't a myth at all. Attention to skills growth and national productivity is essential if technology take up is to be successful. Failure simply sees the so called brain drain and ultimately industrial shrinkage. Sounds familiar.

crocodile wrote on Dec 18^th, 2018 at 12:24pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 18th, 2018 at 8:14am: Term Dog wrote on Dec 18th, 2018 at 8:08am: Some feel full employment in the era of automation is a myth. Fine - let them go down that path - the problems will not go away - a rise in unemployment means fewer buyers and a rise in wages for the employed to be able to buy in a diminishing market..... It isn't a myth at all. Attention to skills growth and national productivity is essential if technology take up is to be successful. Failure simply sees the so called brain drain and ultimately industrial shrinkage. Sounds familiar.

Australia hasn't had full employment since the 1970s.