Help for workers who have recently lost their jobs in the automotive manufacturing industry If you have been made redundant from an eligible company in the automotive manufacturing industry (including component suppliers), the Automotive Industry Structural Adjustment Programme can help you find a new job. The programme provides a range of tailored assistance and access to intensive employment services. The Automotive Industry Structural Adjustment Programme is delivered as part of jobactive, the Australian Government’s way to get more Australians into work. It connects job seekers with employers and is delivered by a network of jobactive providers. Your jobactive provider will help you to: write a résumé look for work prepare for interviews train in skills that local employers need use self-help facilities find and keep a job. Am I eligible? To receive assistance through the Automotive Industry Structural Adjustment Programme, you must register with a jobactive provider no later than six months after the date of your redundancy. Your jobactive provider will confirm your eligibility for the programme and will need to see your letter (or other evidence) of redundancy to complete your registration. Find your local jobactive provider at and ask to register directly with them. What help is available to me? jobactive providers can tailor their services to your assessed needs to help you get and keep a job. Through the Automotive Industry Structural Adjustment Programme you will receive immediate access to intensive employment services (Stream B assistance). Your jobactive provider will meet with you to help you find work and develop a Job Plan that could include: activities to help you get skills that local employers are looking for help for you to overcome or manage nonvocational issues where relevant assistance to look for jobs each month. To help you get and keep a job, your jobactive provider can access funding to pay for work-related items, professional services, relevant training and support after you start a new job. For eligible automotive workers, this fund includes a $1,300 credit for jobactive providers to use. Your provider can also connect you to a range of other government initiatives. These include relocation assistance, wage subsidies, training, apprenticeships and help to start a business through the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS).
For more information about how Disability Employment Services providers can help you, or to locate your local service call a JobAccess Adviser on 1800 464 800 or visit Fair Entitlements Guarantee Employees who are owed certain employee entitlements after losing their job because their employer went bankrupt or into liquidation may be able to get financial help from the Government. This help is available through the Fair Entitlements Guarantee, a legislative safety net scheme of last resort. For more information visit or call the Fair Entitlements Guarantee hotline on 1300 135 040. Redundancy entitlements If you have been made redundant and believe you have not received the entitlements you are owed, contact the Fair Work Ombudsman. The Fair Work Ombudsman will help you recover your outstanding entitlements. You can call the Fair Work Ombudsman on 13 13 94 or visit What is expected of me? If you receive an income support payment and have mutual obligation requirements, you will need to enter into a Job Plan and do all of the activities listed, such as completing: a required number of job searches per month, and Work for the Dole, or another approved activity, for six months each year. You also need to act on referrals from your provider to specific jobs in your local area. Your jobactive provider will explain and work with you to help you meet your mutual obligation requirements. Expectations for service delivery The Australian Government expects jobactive providers to deliver quality services to job seekers and employers. Service Guarantees setting out provider service requirements can be found at jobactive providers are required to display the Service Guarantees and their service delivery plans in their offices and make them available to job seekers and employers. Their plans are also published at Want more information? For advice on jobactive call 13 62 68 or visit For advice on services offered by the Department of Human Services call 13 28 50 or visit The information in this brochure can also be found at Do you need help with this fact sheet? If you need an interpreter, please call the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450* and ask TIS to call the department of Employment on 1300 363 079 If you are deaf, or have a hearing or speech impairment, you can use the National Relay Service. For more information, visit www.relayservice.com.au *Note that call charges apply for calls to ‘13’ numbers from mobile phones