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A Qantas spokesman said the airline and government had not decided how the $500 wage payment would apply when employees return to work or training before October. However, he said it would not function as a wage subsidy, as JobKeeper did for some employees.to stimulate demand in the travel sector and help get more stood down airline employees back to work faster.
The Australian and International Pilots Association president Murray Butt said the payments for Qantas staff were “welcome news to a lot of people who are in financial stress”.
Businesses are lucky in Australia. They get state and federal support always no matter loss or profit making their pays and bonuses heavy. Still business cry for heap and support.
Scomo gonna call this the JoyceKeeper. (aka Joyce's Bonus Keeper)
Why not $40 a day like other unemployed?
Why? Why do they get it and University and tourism workers don’t, - what is wrong with this stupid government?
Didn’t Qantas Rort job keeper And Frydenberg tell them they didn’t have to pay the Taxpayers money back