Information about the inquiry
On 25 September
2008, the Senate referred the provisions of the Social Security
Legislation Amendment (Employment Services Reform) Bill 2008 to the Senate
Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for
report by 24 November 2008.
The bill will
establish a framework for a new compliance system that will make job
seekers more accountable for their efforts to find and keep a job. The new
framework will apply to persons in receipt of newstart allowance,
parenting payment (for those subject to participation requirements), youth
allowance (for those who are not full-time students or new apprentices)
and special benefit (for nominated visa holders). Currently, the Act
contains different compliance provisions for these four payments and these
will be consolidated by the bill.
The closing date for submissions is
Friday, 31 October 2008.
The committee
requests that where possible, submissions should be provided by email to
eewr.sen@aph.gov.au preferably as MS Word or RTF format documents.
Notes to assist in preparing submissions are available from the website
https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm.
Once the
committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential committee
document. Release of your submission without the committee's permission
will remove the protection of parliamentary privilege. The committee
normally makes submissions public. Please indicate if you want your
submission to be kept confidential.
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For further information, contact:
Mr John Carter
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia