aikmann4 wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 9:01pm:



They are useless, I agree.

...And as for how they managed to get a leg in, in this country, you might have to consult with Rudds wife, as she became a multi millionaire with these same employment agencies, whilst under Howards work-choices, apparently.

The irony!

mellie wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 9:07pm:

God your on fire tonight mellie it wasn't Rudd it was either Keating or Howard who closed the CES and therefore allowed these agencies and Rudds wife to make sh!tloads of money.

The Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) was an Australian Government employment agency established in 1946 with the introduction of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945 and continued to exist under the provisions of the Commonwealth Employment Service Act 1978.

The Department underwent changes in both direction and name in the 1990s.

Became known as Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA)

With the successful election of the Liberal Government of John Howard in 1996, the Department was on short time. Liberal Government policy stated that all Employment services were to be opened up to privatisation.

Within 2 years all Federal Government interest and claim to directly run employment services had been relinquished by April 1998.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Employment_Service

The Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) was an Australian Government employment agency established in 1946 with the introduction of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945 and continued to exist under the provisions of the Commonwealth Employment Service Act 1978.
[edit] History in the last 1990 -1998

The Department underwent changes in both direction and name in the 1990s.

Became known as Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA)

With the successful election of the Liberal Government of John Howard in 1996, the Department was on short time. Liberal Government policy stated that all Employment services were to be opened up to privatisation.

Within 2 years all Federal Government interest and claim to directly run employment services had been relinquished by April 1998.

External or Contracted Case Management (CCM's) 'Job Agencies' tendered for job/employment services. These services were run by organisations, community groups and for the first time 'main stream' privately run agencies.

The Department created the entity "Employment Assistance Australia" EAA. To counter the perception that it no longer wanted to handle employment services for the LTUE clients. EAA officers worked in existing CES Offices in th majority of cases.

The focus moved to "Intensive Assistance" for all LTUE clients, with a view to assisting those clients with disadvantages to gaining and sustaining employment.

In late 1996, [DEETYA] implemented the Job Search Kiosks within CES offices, still in use within Centrelink offices across Australia. The initial idea was to also place these kiosks in shopping centres and libraries to facilitate greater access to jobs for the community. the plan was never implemented.

Staff were advised in March 1997, that as of 30 March 1998 the Department would cease to operate and all employment service functions were to be split between DSS and the soon to be named Job Network.
[edit] Post 1998

During 1998, part of the Commonwealth Employment Service functions transferred to a new government entity, Employment National, a new government provider of employment services amongst a competitive network of community, government and commercial agencies known as the Job Network.[1] The remaining functions transferred to Centrelink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Employment_Service

There you are mellie blame Howard for Rudds wife's wealth

mellie wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 9:17pm:


What's worse, is that these Job Network parasites receive larger lump sums as their 'clients' become longer term unemployed - and so they are effectively-incentivised to neglect the needs and aspirations of their cash cow 'clients' in between unemployment milestones...