'JobKeeper about preserving jobs not wages': Treasurer
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Labor’s proposed amendment to the JobKeeper scheme, which would see a minimum payment of $600 doled out to all participants, would “cost jobs”. “If you were to force an employer to pay someone even though there was not the work for them, then ultimately that could lead to more sackings,” Mr Frydenberg told Sky News. The Morrison government’s reforms to JobKeeper will extend the program beyond it’s original finish date in September and will maintain Industrial Relations flexible arrangements regarding duties, hours worked and location for workers. “If you’re coming off JobKeeper but your turnover is down between 10 and 30 per cent you’ll be able to maintain those flexible arrangements but you won’t be able to reduce the hours worked below 60 per cent as they were on the first of March,” he said. “It’s critical to understand that these are still distressed businesses, so they can’t keep all their employees fully employed because their doors are not necessarily fully open." Mr Frydenberg also told Sky News the significant issue for the government was preserving jobs not a certain wage. “It’s not about ensuring that the worker is getting exactly the same pay they were receiving previously it’s about ensuring that they can maintain their job," he said. While Treasury forecasts indicate another 400,000 workers will lose their jobs by Christmas, the Treasurer said tapering the JobKeeper scheme was an “appropriate response” given businesses were already beginning to recover from lockdown measures. He pointed out the JobKeeper subsidy was “the single largest program that Australia has ever undertaken” and would cost the taxpayer $101 billion dollars. Image: Getty
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Labor’s proposed amendment to the JobKeeper scheme, which would see a minimum payment of $600 doled out to all participants, would “cost jobs”. “If you were to force an employer to pay someone even though there was not the work for them, then ultimately that could lead to more sackings,” Mr Frydenberg told Sky News. The Morrison government’s reforms to JobKeeper will extend the program beyond it’s original finish date in September and will maintain Industrial Relations flexible arrangements regarding duties, hours worked and location for workers. “If you’re coming off JobKeeper but your turnover is down between 10 and 30 per cent you’ll be able to maintain those flexible arrangements but you won’t be able to reduce the hours worked below 60 per cent as they were on the first of March,” he said. “It’s critical to understand that these are still distressed businesses, so they can’t keep all their employees fully employed because their doors are not necessarily fully open." Mr Frydenberg also told Sky News the significant issue for the government was preserving jobs not a certain wage. “It’s not about ensuring that the worker is getting exactly the same pay they were receiving previously it’s about ensuring that they can maintain their job," he said. While Treasury forecasts indicate another 400,000 workers will lose their jobs by Christmas, the Treasurer said tapering the JobKeeper scheme was an “appropriate response” given businesses were already beginning to recover from lockdown measures. He pointed out the JobKeeper subsidy was “the single largest program that Australia has ever undertaken” and would cost the taxpayer $101 billion dollars. Image: Getty
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