JobKeeper greed dents companies’ social licence to give health advice

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Day after day, more undeserving recipients of JobKeeper payments are uncovered. The demonstrated avarice poses a credibility dilemma as companies now call on their workers to do the right thing in the pandemic. | OPINION covid19 JobKeeper vaccines ...

, which found the company had joined the list of Australia’s 20 ‘Most Distrusted Brands’ - joining Amazon, Google, Twitter and Crown Resorts. The report’s author noted the public criticism around JobKeeper.Paul Jones

Of course there are numerous companies, particularly small businesses, that have legitimately received JobKeeper and for whom the payroll support was a lifeline. But those companies that have unjustifiably benefited from the taxpayer-funded subsidies and limited the government’s ability to extend corporate welfare to those that really need it have sullied the reputation of business, and elevated the level of distrust of companies overall.

 

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Galling too are those organisations whose revenues didn’t fall by the qualification amount yet stood employees down anyway, seeing the pandemic as an opportunity to write a chunk of leave entitlements off the GL while impacted employees got nothing from the government.

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