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Social development and Employment Minister comments on rule changes to job hunting

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Mon, 20 Oct 2025, 1:41pm
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Social development and Employment Minister comments on rule changes to job hunting

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 20 Oct 2025, 1:41pm

Beneficiaries who break the Government's job hunt rules face more intensive sanctions to prove they are hunting for employment. 

From today, they will be required to report on at least three job search activities a week and participate in four weeks of training courses. 

Minister for social development and employment Louise Upston told Kerre Woodham that the rules are for people, 鈥渨ho aren't doing their best, who aren't fulfilling their responsibilities, and this is a non-financial consequence of their inaction.鈥 

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