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Mrs Crosio
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security, upon notice, on 4 February 1997:
(1) Is it within the rights of a person in receipt of unemployment benefits to turn down a job offer on the grounds that the prospective employer offers poor occupational health and safety conditions and that to take the job might endanger his or her health; if not, why not.
(2) Should a person in receipt of unemployment benefits be penalised by being made temporarily ineligible for Job Search or Newstart Allowance after turning down a job offer on the grounds that the prospective employer offered poor occupational health and safety conditions and that to take the job might endanger his or her health; if so, why.
(3) What (a) did the Social Security Act, prior to the introduction of the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 1996 and (b) does the Social Security Act now say in regard to the job unsuitability test when a person is faced with poor occupational health and safety conditions, and why was this section of the Act amended.
(4) What are the estimated savings to the Commonwealth as a result of the amendment referred to in part (3).
Mr Ruddock
—The Minister for Social Security has provided the following answer to the honourable member's question:
(1) Yes.
(2) There would be no penalty where a customer in receipt of Newstart or Youth Training Allowance declined a job offer due to occupational health and safety grounds.
(3) (a) Existing legislation, (s 601(2A)(c) of the Social Security Act 1991) states "particular paid work is unsuitable for a person if and only if, in the Secretary's opinion, performing the work in the conditions in which the work would be performed would constitute a risk to health or safety and would contravene a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory relating to occupational health and safety".
(b) The proposed amendment was not passed by Parliament in the previous sitting. Therefore the existing legislation is still applicable.
(4) There were to be no savings as a result of this amendment.