Job fees under attack

State variations in legislation governing recruitment companies are creating an uneven playing field, according to The Job Shop’s Andrew Coldbeck.   He complained legislation introduced in Western Australia in 2005 preventing recruitment companies charging jobseekers a fee had not been replicated elsewhere.

“We’ve been able to market the value the backpackers bring to the organisation and we get a fee from them. I see (charging backpackers) as exploitation. There are no other workers in our society who have to pay for a job.”

Coldbeck added the economic downturn was forcing backpackers to stay in work for longer rather than moving from job to job as they travel around the country.

By Alice Terlikowski  ·  May 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

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  1. Joanna Burnet
    15 May 09
    2:09 pm

    2. I would like to comment on the remarks by Andrew Coldbeck about job clubs in Queensland.

    There is no way that employers should be hammered by fees the way they do in WA. We need to value the employers and then they will go on supporting the backpacker workers.

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