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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: work-test obligations

154: Deemed failure to comply with work-test obligation

You could also call this:

“When you're thought to have broken work rules without a good excuse”

You are considered to have failed to meet your work-test obligations without a good reason in three situations. First, if you don’t apply for jobs that require drug tests without a good reason. Second, if you’re supposed to work full-time but you quit or get fired for bad behaviour from a part-time job or a job with fewer hours than part-time. Third, if you’re supposed to work part-time but you quit or get fired for bad behaviour from a job with fewer hours than part-time. These rules are part of the Social Security Act 2018 and apply to work-test obligations.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work-test obligations

154Deemed failure to comply with work-test obligation

  1. A person (P) is deemed to have failed without a good and sufficient reason to comply with a work-test obligation under section 144 or 146 if—

  2. P, without a good and sufficient reason, fails to apply for suitable employment that requires candidates to undertake drug tests; or
    1. P is a full-time work-tested beneficiary and leaves, without a good and sufficient reason, or is dismissed for misconduct from, part-time work or employment averaging less than part-time work; or
      1. P is a part-time work-tested beneficiary who leaves, without a good and sufficient reason, or is dismissed for misconduct from, employment averaging less than part-time work.

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