Dossier
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Coverage of Department of Employment and Workplace Relations in the Nexus archive.
- Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits
The Albanese government admitted to illegally cancelling hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments due to a glitch in the automated system managing the mutual obligations scheme. Senate estimates hearing revealed the cancellations occurred when individuals were not given sufficient time to reconnect to job providers after missing mandatory activities.
- Federal government paid $3.8m in personal protection for then CFMEU administrator
The federal government paid $3.8 million in personal protection for the administrators of the CFMEU. A Senate committee also heard that minister Murray Watt required personal security after introducing legislation to place the union into administration.