JobMaker could make it harder for older workers like Joan to find jobs

Employers could sack experienced employees, replace them with workers earning just a third of the salary and get a taxpayer-funded grant to do it, previously secret Treasury documents have revealed.FOI documents show Treasury examples of companies sacking full-time employees and hiring cheaper part-time workers

Joan Hughes, in her early 60s, spent two years looking for work. After a lifetime of career advancement, she felt the burn of age discrimination."You start to question your own skills and attributes, and you just give up." The number of jobs likely to be created is a tenth of that, around 45,000, acting division head, JobKeeper Division at The Treasury, Philippa Brown, told the Economics Legislation Committee on Monday, November 2, 2020.

Treasury documents note that "arrangements for claiming the Hiring Credit will require an employer to demonstrate both an increase in payroll and an increase in headcount" and that there are costs involved in getting rid of and hiring employees. In response to questions about the table, a statement from Treasury contended that "any JobMaker Hiring Credit payments received by employers will, at most, only offset the increased payroll from the eligible additional new employees", and that there was "no financial windfall" to employers if they replaced one full-time employee with three part-time employees.

JobKeeper, JobSeeker and now JobMaker, the only people getting work out of this are the muppets who come up with these names.

It's clearly affordable when companies can give huge bonuses

A reason for a generous welfare system. The Universal Basic Income is the answer.

Bullshit. A couple of scenarios from Treasury don't make it so. Replace a $75K full-time skilled, experienced worker with 3 part-time $25K workers? Oh, and employ a $75K full-time supervisor to train them & stop them from doing something stupid like injuring themselves?

could ABC give their articles any worse titles?

Was hard enough before, will just be three times harder now😕

Cooki3Cutter Well. The older people (45-65) are a failed generation anyway. They are pretty useless in most jobs. Please watch my content.

Definitely, eligibility for the payment is box to tick on some job applications. It’s happening 😡

The unfortunate truth is I have a friend father who lost a job in 2010 and at the time he was 59 years old. Never worked again. Applied for 100s of jobs never got a single interview. There needs to be almost a bridging pension systems.

Typical LAZY boomer. Enough excuses, get off your bum and get a job.

Another ridiculous government scheme. As if things weren't hard enough already for older people looking for work. If you can't house, feed and see to it that most people are employed, you're a failure of a government.

Over 55 very little chance of finding work The Federal Government knows that but at the end of March it’s back to trying to live on $40 per day Morrison and Frydenberg grow a heart

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