The Australian Government has announced a new hotline for employers to report JobSeeker recipients who refuse a job offer.
The announcement was made as the government revealed JobSeeker welfare payments will increase by $50 a fortnight when the coronavirus supplement stops in March.
The Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie said a better alternative was for the government to look for solutions to create more jobs for the future.
The chief executive said, “We want to foster collaboration between employers, between social services, the union movement and most importantly, people affected by unemployment…Instead the government’s going down a path of distrust and division.”