Tax Office says it can't force businesses to put workers on JobKeeper

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The Australian Tax Office has said it cannot compel businesses to include workers in JobKeeper if the employer has decided they are ineligible to get the $1500 fortnightly wage subsidy | nickbonyhady

The Australian Tax Office says it cannot compel businesses to include workers in JobKeeper if the employer has decided they are ineligible to get the $1500 fortnightly wage subsidy.

When asked about eligibility rules, the Tax Office told this masthead employers must follow the "one in, all in" rule but employers were charged with self-assessing eligibility. "The employer cannot select which eligible employees will participate in the scheme," a spokeswoman said.During disputes about eligibility, the Tax Office tried to educate employers about the rules with a view to ensuring their eligible employees could access the scheme, the spokeswoman said.

Major retailers have faced questions from casual staff excluded from JobKeeper because they took holidays their bosses believed were long enough to stop them being considered "regular and systematic" workers — one of the grounds for eligibility — and found they could not get help easily. Greens leader Adam Bandt wants workers to have a single destination for workers to resolve eligibility issues with JobKeeper."Potentially hundreds of thousands of people are entitled to JobKeeper but aren't getting it," Mr Bandt said. "The government says employers must give JobKeeper to all their eligible employees, but if the employer says no, the worker has nowhere to go.

 

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nickbonyhady Then why were HR people stressing they'd be held responsible for an error to include or not-include a staff member. Would have been far less stress in my house /co-work if they knew that had the accountability of an LNP-MP.

nickbonyhady Sad that they don’t try

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