Employment minister says it’s ‘too late’ to abandon Coalition’s points-based jobseeker payment system
by Sarah Martin from World news | The Guardian on (#60H3J)
Tony Burke aims to make scheme logical', despite unemployment advocates' calls for halt to controversial program
The employment minister, Tony Burke, says it is too late to scrap a controversial points-based mutual obligation system for jobseekers, insisting the concept is right", but needs tweaking.
Advocates have been calling on the new Albanese government to scrap, or at least pause, the the points-based activation system" (Pbas), which requires jobseekers to earn 100 points" through job search or other activities including study, training, hours of employment or work for the dole.
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