Job provider dropping situation on me last minute.
Hey guys, I'll try keep this short as possible without leaving out the main details.
Have been with a job provider coming up to 4 weeks now, in initial face to face discussed what roles I am looking for etc, what I need to get started and all of the rest of it for the initial appointment.
We then discussed my leave from the area to which I gave her the dates of me going, which is this saturday coming 22nd August, until 12th September. Due to my grandfathers declining health, so my mother and I will be down there to spend time with him. (He is in hospice now, doctors unsure how long he has.) Knowing all this, my job provider accepted all this information as is and agreed to hold off in finding me employment until my return date. Which was very considerate and kind of her. Fast forward to second apt, and we just more or less went over the same things and talked about the mutual agreements again and all was seemingly well. Fast forward again until today, she has given me a call, today (sunday) and has told me that suitable work has now come up for me and her "employer" is desperate for staff. Quickly tried to get off our agreement we had from when i return from visiting a dying family member. To which i was cut off and she basically laid down the law and rules of being with a job provider. Has told me now that I MUST agree and have a face to face meeting with said workplace that is desperate for employees or else she will have to mark me as turning down suitable employment and my payment will be cut, next sunday is my next payment, and that unfortunately is my rents worth of dole money. So it stresses me out that she has dropped this on me last minute after originally agreeing to give me time to get these family circumstances sorted. I am to have another appointment with her this coming tuesday.
What are my options, what can I do? Is calling centrelink and going over my provider the best course of action?
The only thing else she has suggested to me that would be of some help is trying to get a "Extreme family circumstance exemption" which if I cant get within my one day before our appointment she cant mark me as exempt from applying to this job she has found. or to change my provider to someone else as this will give me 2ish weeks to work with whilst im away (im not sure how true this is, and I feel like she has said this to just boot me off of her case load.)