The Business Council of Australia says that the fact that nearly 40,000 people have been on JobSeeker for 10 years or longer represents a failure of the system to help them back into employment.
Jennifer Westacott, chief executive of the BCA, said there was something “very wrong” with the job services system if so many people stayed unemployed for so long in one of the tightest job markets on record.
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