To ensure the monies are paid directly to eligible students and do not put the host organisation at risk of being expected to create an ongoing, paid position beyond the duration of the placement, the payment would be best made as a stipend, rather than a salary. [...] • It is the most legislatively simple and effective model; • It would ensure that the payment is a legitimate workplace entitlement; • Eligible students would be covered by the Fair Work Act provisions protecting employees during their placements; • It would be equivalent to lost income from earned work up to the rate of the minimum wage; • It would be inclusive of international students, as the r. [...] Again, it is highly unlikely that an exception would • Would be administered by the federal be made to this rule, due to the likelihood that it government without the need for involvement of would lead to legal challenges to the means testing educational institutions or workplaces other than of other payments. [...] There To ensure the monies are paid directly to eligible is no precedent for government providing an students and do not put the host organisation at administrative fee on top of wage subsidies to risk of being expected to create an ongoing, paid eligible employers, so this cost is likely to fall on position beyond the duration of the placement, the the host organisation. [...] This model would achieve most of the important elements of the ACHSWE’s core requirements for Cost to Government student placement payments, in that it: The annual cost of this model for a standard annual • Would be administered by the federal workplace placement of 500 hours for up to 7,000 government without the need for involvement of students is up to $72Million per annum.
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