no-one in the media has focused on the rules and regulations regarding the recent budget
and the promise of government subsidies to employers seeking to employ persons who are
on JobSeeker.
The rules and regulations which I refer to are those which apply to small businesses.
Briefly, small businesses are protected by the small business code which allows dismissal
of employees without penalty if such business has less than 15 employees and the employee
has been employed for less than 12 months.
If an employee choses to claim the appropriate subsidy, employ someone for 11 months and
then dismiss them as being unsuitable, there is no recourse for the employee.
Governments cant just change the small business code to suit the subsidy.
How?
If you employ someone and claim the subsidy, you cant sack them.
If theyre unsuitable, why not...
This budget subsidy gives false, unrealistic hope to everyone.
I feel that many unscrupulous employers will employ persons off JobSeeker, keep them
for 12 months whilst claiming the subsidy, then sack them...saying that they were "unsuitable"
The government has stuffed this up.
Its not hope for the future....
Its just more policy on the run....
Another government furphy...
