Australia’s employment services sector is celebrating the outstanding achievement against the odds of Adelaide man and commercial roofer, Joseph Paley, who has taken out the 2023 National Employment Services Association (NESA) Award for Achiever of the Year.
Twelve months ago, Joseph Paley was unemployed and sleeping rough, having just been released from prison and estranged from his support network. After one freezing night huddled up next to a wall at a train station, Joseph decided things had to change and walked to the nearest office of employment services provider, Workskil Australia, where staff found him waiting the next morning.
Australia’s employment services sector is celebrating a Victorian employer that has taken out the 2023 National Employment Services Association (NESA) Award for Employer of the Year.
Founded on the belief that everyone deserves a second chance, Fruit2Work focuses on providing employment to people who have been impacted by the justice system.
Servicing more than 1000 customers in the Greater Melbourne area, Geelong and Ballarat, Fruit2Work is a certified social enterprise and registered charity delivering fresh fruit, milk and pantry items along with vending services.
Australia’s employment services sector is celebrating the professional excellence of a former refugee who has taken out the 2023 National Employment Services Association (NESA) Award for Employment Consultant of the Year.
Overseas-born, but with a remarkable 25 years of experience in employment services within the Adelaide North Region, Hafez Zamani is the Business Development Manager for global health and workplace services provider, APM, overseeing 33 employment consultants across 13 sites and servicing a culturally and ethnically diverse demographic.
National Employment Services Association (NESA), the peak body for Australian employment services sector, welcomes the release of the Australian Government’s White Paper on Jobs and Opportunities – Working Future and its vision for a dynamic and inclusive labour market.
NESA Chief Executive, Kathryn Mandla, said all Australians should have the opportunity and support to access the dignity of paid work and to contribute to the country’s economic growth.
Ninety delegates from around the world joined the NESA team in Sydney at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence for the 2019 NESA/OECD Indigenous Employment Forum. Delegates heard passionate and insightful representations from around Australia, as well as from Canadian Government representatives, members of the OECD and social enterprise leaders from New Zealand.
The forum also saw the release of the OECD report Indigenous Employment and Skills Strategies in Australia. This report is the latest in the series of country-specific OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation.