Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 232, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 10 December 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997               2

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	16 December 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 34, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit “Job Services Australia”, substitute “jobactive”.

2  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

123	jobactive		To help job seekers find and keep a job, and to move from welfare to work, by: (a) providing employment and related services which assist job seekers to find and keep a job with suitable employers; and (b) providing Work for the Dole activities in not‑for‑profit and government organisations to help prepare job seekers for the work environment; as measures: (c) providing allowances, benefits, endowments and services of the kind described in paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution; or (d) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (e) providing a free public employment service; or (f) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (g) meeting Australia’s international obligations in relation to persons with disabilities, in particular obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; or (h) providing benefits or services to Indigenous persons, families, entities or communities; or (i) providing benefits or services to aliens or immigrants; or (j) providing services in a Territory.
124	Labour Market Support Stream		To provide additional services to retrenched workers and job seekers to help them to find and keep employment, as measures: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
125	National Wage Subsidy Pool		To provide for a programme of wage subsidies and other incentives to employers who employ unemployed persons (including mature age and young job seekers, long‑term unemployed persons, Indigenous job seekers and parents seeking to rejoin the workforce), as measures: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
126	National Work Experience Programme		To provide for a programme of unpaid work experience in order to provide stronger incentives for employers to offer work experience and employment opportunities to job seekers, as measures: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
127	New Enterprise Incentive Scheme		To provide unemployed persons with small business training, mentoring and assistance to help create a financially viable business and to become self‑employed business owners, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
128	Harvest Labour Services and National Harvest Labour Information Service		To provide unemployed persons and other persons eligible to work in Australia with opportunities to undertake work that supports the requirements of growers in the horticultural industry during peak harvest times, as measures: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory; or (f) involving electronic communications.
129	Corporate Champions	To provide assistance to employers to move towards better practices in relation to employing mature age job seekers, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
130	Engaging Early School Leavers	To encourage early school leavers to actively seek employment if they are not participating in full‑time education or to participate in a combination of education, part‑time work and other approved activities, as measures: (a) providing benefits to students; or (b) providing unemployment benefits; or (c) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (d) providing a free public employment service; or (e) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (f) providing services in a Territory.
131	Intensive Support—Transition to Work	To provide assistance to young people who have disengaged from education and are at risk of becoming long‑term unemployed by providing intensive early intervention to prepare them for work, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
132	Empowering YOUth Initiatives	To provide innovative localised solutions that support at‑risk young people to find a job, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
133	Automotive Industry Structural Adjustment Programme	To provide assistance to workers in the automotive manufacturing industry (including component manufacturers and suppliers) who have been made redundant, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (e) providing services in a Territory.
134	Forestry Industry in Tasmania Structural Adjustment Programme	To provide assistance to workers in the forestry industry in Tasmania who have been made redundant, as a measure: (a) providing unemployment benefits; or (b) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (c) providing a free public employment service; or (d) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work.
135	Beacon Foundation Real Futures Generation Programme	To provide assistance to the Beacon Foundation for its Real Futures Generation programme, as a measure: (a) promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment; or (b) providing technical and vocational guidance and training programmes to enable persons to realise the right to work; or (c) providing services in a Territory.