How are you not eligible for either?

Neither am I but I’m ok as I have a lot of savings and my renters are still paying something, though less than normal?

^^read it again, it says she/he GOT Job Seeker

Oh sorry I see now
Well you can get a job when they stop payments.

God you people have no idea.

^ You're getting a little agitated. Do you need a hug?

^ have to agree! The saying “just get a job” makes me just go pfft! I am trying so hard to get a job, I have done 2 courses in business admin, I have volunteered, actually studying atm.

As soon as an employer hear single mum, 43 they shut down! I saw it happen in front of my face!

I applied to Coles and Woolies with a friends 16yr old, they got the job I didn’t!

It not so easy to “just get a job”! If I get the extra it will all be stashed

Tele sales
Door to door sales
Dishwashing
Cafes
Resteraunts
Cleaning
Driving
Factory jobs
Packing jobs

There is always work doing one of these.
Always
Since I was 16 I have never been out of work longer than 3 days not by choice
I took 10 years off to have kids came back into working took another 5 years off with my suprise baby and went back to work at the age of 46.

If you don’t live rural there is ALWAYS work.

That’s a bit presumptuous of you! Just because there’s always work about doesn’t mean it’s easy for anyone to get.

Literally all of those jobs in that list dont exist anymore, except for cleaning, and now you need a degree in it to get a position

Soz wrote this above on wrong thread too

Because half the country is shut down.
They will exist when everything opens back up 🙄
My job currently “doesn’t exist” right now but it will as soon as restrictions ease.
Really silly comment.

For the person who is a sole parent:
Don’t tell the potential employer you’re a sole parent (not sure how this would even come up in an interview)
They don’t need to know your age until you agree to being employed by them and you’re filling in the paperwork for your contract.
Don’t put your date of birth on your resume - it’s irrelevant to how well you’ll perform - they’ll know soon enough how old you are when they meet you.

I have always been asked in interviews about my family situation, when they ask about availability.
It’s something they need to know especially when I can’t work outside of before and after school care hours or on weekends.

Employers get a general idea of your age when they look at your job history and any qualifications.

"These are my available hours"

"Oh I see you're not available before/after school, what's your family situation like?"

"Well Bob, between the hours of 7am and 9am I like to stick pieces of raw chicken in my arse. Then from 3pm-6pm I look up and write out the various anti-discrimination laws regarding employment, with a focus on how you ARE NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO ENQUIRE ABOUT MY PERSONAL LIFE THAT DOES NOT RELATE TO WORK. 7pm onwards is for rollerskating and shit".

While I throughly enjoyed your humor real life isn't like that. You can't tell your potential employer to mind his own business not if you want the job.

No, you're right. That's usually not the best approach. But, what you can say is that due to privacy laws you're unable to answer that question. Or give em the old single eyebrow raise.
And just to clarify, I'm a new commenter. I saw the comment about being asked about family and I remember being asked that myself. It pissed me off that others have to go through that like its 1924.
Employers know they're not allowed to ask that shit. A simple hesitation and look should give them the gentle nudge to move on with that question. And if you think you've been discriminated against and they've shut down during the interview, call them out. What do you have to lose. Maybe the next person they interview will reap the benefits of your courage. Or maybe, if they continue, and you escalate it to the fairwork ombudsman, the dickhead interviewing you will get fired, and a spot will open up there. God I hate people that deliberately flout the law and take advantage of peoples good manners. Fuckers

What’s your point?

^ Seek want potential employees to have six months prior experience to deliver pizza...3 years prior experience to wash dishes....I feel like many of the jobs on Seek are unreasonable in their expectations!

I've had 30 years dishwashing experience i've got that sown up! Yes!

I have been impressed at labour in all this - getting relief package through quickly without problems, not making it a bun fight.

What kind of buns would they be fighting over? Chocolate?

Whatever you can fit up your ass

That's the spirit

😂😂😂😂😂

Literally all of those jobs in that list dont exist anymore, except for cleaning, and now you need a degree in it to get a position.

😆😆

Without a surplus (savings) there may not have been the money to splash around now, you can't give from an empty pot.
How many people plan for a raining day?

Yes because he looked in his crystal ball & thought I'm not going to bother investing in fire fighting equipment that could put those fires out sooner, rfs have got this. We need money in the kitty for the upcoming world wide pandemic....

Must have been his plan all along

Yes. Must have been

🙄

Oh yeah they are great for a cup of rice and a few potatoes, demand for their help will go thru the roof, soon, will be lucky to get a grain of rice of them.

The Salvation Army are too busy sending their donations to criminals in gaol, than to honest down on their luck citizens. Fuck the salvos. They're a scam.

I know their are scam, they kept 64 million dollars “to save for a rainy day”
But because the virus has happened they haven’t even come to the party to help people they think people have forgot about it! Their f*!k*n grubs!

Very high and mighty you are. All the jobs are gone and they are not coming back.

Yes don’t you see by the last couple of threads, everything is everyone else’s
fault and this too will be the governments fault even though they basically made the country free for 6 months.

It is after all the governments responsility for everything And our whole life’s happiness and income.

I pay my taxes dammit. Free education, health care and strong welfare isn’t enough! Even when you give me even more when a pandemic happens (more than most countries )

God dammit ! It’s just not enough. 5”6 months is just a slap in the face

I actually agree with the content of the response completely, but the tone is unnecessary. I did read the heading that the Coronavirus is bringing out the online troll in us all on BBC.. I can see it everywhere now. She was asking a question and your response was just cruel, malicious and harsh. As I said, I get your argument, but if you wouldn’t speak to your friends like this, than why spread the rudeness

In my response, I do feel like it may actually be a long time- considering how quickly things have changed and are changing in regards to reducing lockdowns etc.. perhaps by then most things will be back and starting to pick up speed(of course maybe not). I do find it hard to imagine how that ‘many’ will manage as I am concerned about my own and my husbands employment, it is such an unknown time.. I just don’t feel safe even though I should feel safe.. things are moving so fast and the constant reassessing of everything leaves me in a state of constant unease and ‘waiting for something/a final decision’ mode

I could easily live permanently on 550 a week if it meant I didn’t have to work.
The dole should remain what it is with a 3 week exception that your eligible 4 times of 3 weeks at 500.

Oopes wrong thread

Unemployment payment of $500 may be too much, as in there will be no incentive to find work & get more money to live comfortably if $500 is 'enough'. Especially when other payments/benefits are added like rent assistance & the Health Care Card.
(I'm not referring to Pensioners, Parenting, Disability etc)
I am glad Australia has a good social security system, with lots of free stuff as previously mentioned (education & health). I am happy to contribute with my taxes, which will all go up, as previously suggested to pay for our current benefits to get through this crisis. It defineitky highlights the fact we all need better savings and support systems. I think our government has handled the pandemic really well so far, it must be a difficult time for them & all our health workers, teachers, retail workers and others workers on the front line.
Let's support each other to get through this Xx

Jeez and to those people who are on low incomes and cannot get ahead? You really have no grasp on how many Australians are forced to live.

Because your not suppose to live on it.

Well actually you are supposed to live on it if you find yourself in the situation that you don’t have work. If it was more , more people would abuse it and make it a lifestyle choice. They don’t make it enough to live on comfortably otherwise many more people would choose not to work.

It’s got me stumped why people make it a lifestyle choice now given that it barely covers essentials.
I also don’t know how on earth the stereotype dole bludger affords cigarettes and booze.

I also think that the pokies should remain closed! Australia is saving 38 million dollars a day!!!

I could easily live permanently on 550 a week if it meant I didn’t have to work. The dole should remain what it is with a 3 week exception that your eligible 4 times of 3 weeks at 500

I don’t understand your exemption idea.
No It’s not hard to live on $550 a week, it’s living on $550 a fortnight that is difficult (the payment jobseekers received before the pandemic)

Smartest comment so far

As long as we're all happy to pay higher taxes to fund it ...... you realise the money from the government comes from 'the people ....us'

After all my expenses working in a 50k a year job what's really the point of working at all if I can kick back on the dole for a similar amount? No way can they keep it.

Piss off, 50k per year is not $500 pw, totally out of touch.

I am happy to pay higher taxes to lift millions out of poverty.

Thats exactly what the Government is here for.

They are here to govern. Not babysit

Yeah, govern and take away millions and millions of jobs. The future is bleak for many.