Media Release: $7.1 million to help protect Australia’s most vulnerable workers

Date published : 7  May  2012 

Sunday 6 May 2012

Media Release

The Hon Bill Shorten MP
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations,
Financial Services and Superannuation

The Australian Government will provide $7.1 million over four years to ensure five Community Based Employment Advice Services (CBEAS) can continue to assist thousands of Australia's most vulnerable workers. CBEAS are not-for-profit organisations which provide advice, assistance and information to Australians who experience difficulties in asserting and exercising their rights at work. Clients of CBEAS include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, working Australians with disability, women, mature-age workers, migrants and young people.

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