One of the nation’s largest employer groups wants the dole cut back to its pre-coronavirus rate except for those who have lost their job in the past 12 months, while asking the government to extend its wage subsidy scheme for businesses grappling with an ongoing hit to revenue.
By the end of 2020 the national unemployment rate had fallen to 6.6 per cent, down from a peak of 7.5 per cent in July on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, but was still up 1.5 percentage points compared to the same time in 2019.
ACCI has also requested the multibillion-dollar wage subsidy scheme JobKeeper be extended in two-tiers for businesses that were “successful economic contributors and job generators” before the pandemic and continue to be affected by government-imposed restrictions.
JennieDuke Alternative idea: offer your staff better conditions in order to attract them
pauldutton1968 JennieDuke How unsurprising that an institution headed by a former fossil fuel executive would urge the government to plunge millions of their countrymen into poverty
JennieDuke Bring back swaggies.
JennieDuke Better 2 die on your feet than live on your knees! Y do ppl get idea that every1 on welfare is some pimply 19 yr old who refuses a job at McDonald’s smokes weed all day! Im in my 40’s unable 2 work bc of health issue. I don’t qualify 4 pension & get Jseeker! My life is shit!
JennieDuke All well & good 4 ppl 2 determine what is acceptable when they haven’t had the struggle of trying 2 live off $40 a day! No 1 in right mind chooses to go on welfare! U also have ppl like me who r unable 2 work due 2 health reasons. There is no sickness benefit I get same $ as all.
JennieDuke Jobseeker needs to be permanently increased. Noone can survive with dignity on $40 per day, let alone have the resources to actually find a job.
JennieDuke Don’t you just love that employer groups, who have benefited from jobseeker want to see the jobless kicked in the guts. Especially great when so many big companies weren’t entitled due to their profits and kept it anyway. They would probably spend $40 a day on coffee.
JennieDuke The Australian Chamber of Commerce trying to sell its own version of a right wing shit sandwich. They should be made to eat it themselves but they talk so much crap that they probably do t have a gag reflex anymore.
JennieDuke 🧠🚮 further evidence that they'd rather have you starve on the streets than lift a finger to help those in need but rather, open their pockets to the LNP cohorts hand over fist whenever the mood fits them
JennieDuke Leftist fake news. The dole is not being cut. The temporary covid supplement is ending. It was never a permanent increase.
JennieDuke Why is an employer group commenting on social welfare policy anyway?
JennieDuke Tell them to shut the hell up pls
JennieDuke Stop importing people from overseas and prioritising them for jobs
JennieDuke Just kill the jobless and put them through the blood and bone factory. Remember Mr Gerry Harvey said giving money to people who “are not putting anything back into the community” is like “helping a whole heap of no-hopers to survive for no good reason”.
JennieDuke Make it zero, that way we can make them homeless and they will then have to get a job and take whatever we want to dish out to them (or not dish out to them when we ask for half their wages back in cash), work on a farm $3 per tonne of strawberries seems fair. Slavery is back
JennieDuke Already at $40 a day ya dumb shits
JennieDuke Why not re-create The Workhouse while they’re at it?
JennieDuke An employer group said that?
JennieDuke Organisation asking for handouts from businesses receiving handouts from govt, tells govt to stop giving handouts.
JennieDuke you can be guaranteed that any policy suggestion is going to be nakedly evil when it's attached to the words 'Employer group' or 'Industry Group'
JennieDuke This is disgusting. Even with the discrimination at the higher rate, people would still live in poverty. You need to retract this and apologise immediately.
JennieDuke Can't beat going backwards, can you ? Well, it's unavoidable with an AusLiberalParty government ? ScottMorrisonMP ScottyFromMktg
JennieDuke Not happy with record profits, employers want even more.
JennieDuke Cut business directors’ salaries to $40 a day, except for newly established businesses.
JennieDuke Yeah, nah. GGF
JennieDuke What kind of utterly self interested classist racist youthist misogynistic shithole of an organisation is the Aus Chamber of Commerce to be lobbying for this?
JennieDuke Authentic frontier gibberish from ultracrepid cockalorums.
JennieDuke Disgraceful that people can think that the unemployed can live on $40 a day What a horrible person Jenni Duke is I wish I could be as entitled as her
JennieDuke Never forget...
JennieDuke FFS as if business hasn’t had enough free money in the last year, maybe it’s now time stop propping up zombie businesses
JennieDuke I call on big business to be taxed on revenue not profit
JennieDuke So a two-tier welfare system that preserves the 'good' unemployed? Smacks of this: