工党 10 万工作承诺或难以实现

在 2014 年维州大选时，工党承诺如顺利当选，他们将在两年内创造 10 万个全新的工作职缺。

然则，工党现今离这项承诺还有一段遥不可及的距离。 事实证明，政府砸大钱促销推广的 “Back to Work” (回去工作) 计画在政府补贴雇主聘用长期失业人士的情况下， 也仅创造约 5000 个全新的工作职缺。

更荒唐的是，政府现在改口宣称当初并未许下这个承诺。 财长声明那不是承诺，而仅是口号，一个为理想目标而喊出的漂亮口号。

倘若政府无法兑现对人民的承诺，则它至少应该承认这一点，而不是装聋作哑玩文字游戏假装当初的承诺只是一个理想口号。

失信于民乃执政者之大忌，自由党政府必会以此为诫，如顺利执政，一定落实法制改革等政策，按部就班的达成对选民的承诺。

 

 

英文版/ English version

Labor’s jobs promise looks likely to fail

 

Before the Victorian election in 2014, the Labor Party promised that if they were elected they would create 100,000 new full time jobs within two years.

 

However, the Labor government is now running well behind this target. In fact, only 5,000 new jobs have been created from the government’s “Back to Work” policy that subsidies employers to hire long term unemployed people.

 

To make it worse, the government is now claiming it didn’t make this promise at all. The Treasurer now says it was a just a “target”, not a promise.

 

If a government’s can’t keep a promise, it should at least be honest enough to admit it, instead of pretending it never made the promise in the first place.