Author: Brittany Birt

The Australia Institute has found that 81% of Australian’s support the JobKeeper supplement payments to be extended to casual workers, without any restrictions on time served at the workplace. The study surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,008 people across 3-6 April. The JobKeeper program was implemented in the form of a 1,500 fortnightly supplement to allow businesses to pay employees whilst not being able to work due to COVID-19 and the lockdown laws implemented by the Australian Government. Currently, the program excludes casual workers that have not been employed for over 12 months, leaving around a million Australian workers…

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