“There's a million Australians doing two jobs and there's a million Australians who are underemployed.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Shorten is correct. Both claims — that a million Australians are underemployed and a million Australians are working two jobs — check out according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. However, as one expert told Fact Check: "There's nothing spectacularly new here." According to the data, the number of people holding down multiple jobs as a proportion of the labour force has remained steady over a number of years. Also, underemployment has fallen in recent months.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bill Shorten (Opposition Leader) made this claim around 29 April 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 13 May 2019, 14 days later. Its rating was “Correct”.
Bill Shorten has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAO86qcgang
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.