From Monday, job seekers on benefits who fail to meet their obligations will face two new non-financial sanctions as part of the Government’s expanded Traffic Light System, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston has announced.
The new measures — Report Job Search and Upskilling — will apply to people who breach their benefit requirements for the first time. Under the Report Job Search sanction, beneficiaries will be required to complete and report at least three job search activities each week for four weeks. The Upskilling sanction, meanwhile, will require participation in employment-related training or courses for at least five hours a week over the same period.
These additions join the Money Management and Community Work Experience sanctions launched earlier this year. Upston said the expanded system reinforces accountability while offering alternatives to financial penalties.
“Job seekers will need to provide evidence of their activities at the end of the sanction period to return to green status,” she said. “These are not onerous expectations — they’re basic obligations that encourage people to engage and prepare for work.”
Upston noted that the vast majority of beneficiaries — around 98.5 percent — remain at the green setting, meaning they are fulfilling their obligations. The Government’s broader welfare reform aims to reduce benefit dependency, particularly among young people, with initiatives such as job coaching, work seminars, and bonuses for remaining off benefits for over a year.
The Traffic Light System is part of the Government’s target to reduce the number of people on Jobseeker Support by 50,000 by 2030. Upston said the changes aim to ensure New Zealanders are ready to work “as economic conditions improve”.
Meanwhile New Zealand’s single biggest beneficiary, the Kiev regime, is exempt from any requirements……including its Azov battalion…..
Looking for jobs that don’t exist
Like looking for a needle in a haystack
Unemployed statistics
Maori 8.9%
Pacific peoples 8.3%
Asians 4.2%
White people 3.6%
This reflects crime statistics where Maori account for approximately 42-45% of criminal convictions while representing only 17% of the national population
There was an Indian guy at mitre 10 today on the checkouts. New Zealanders are LAZY and need to get off their arses.
How bout sacking bureaucratic parasites from their useless inflated cushy fat jobs?
How about chaining failed and corrupt public servants into chain gangs?
And why do we need to pay mega bucks to traitors who have fled overseas?
How about investigating how they end up being suddenly worth many millions after they fled their public servant jobs?
Reason why the answer is NO to all above?
Because the Beehive has become a dog house. ‘Dog does not eat dog.’
(…see the sham covid inquiry).
And then bullshiticians wonder why We The People had enough.
I agree too many overpaid unproductive USELESS up themselves grifting government ‘workers’
One overlooked requirement for a jobseeker: honesty. Very hard for a prospective employer to discern without weeks of evaluation.
Good luck getting a job with all the migrants being brought into NZ!