Published: April 07, 2020
Yesterday’s critical workers have been left to fight today’s health crisis with no job, no jobkeeper, no income, and no options
Yesterday, a friend who runs a creative agency was lamenting the straits of her actors. We might all be sustaining ourselves by watching TV, but coronavirus means that no one is making it. Actors are pay-as-you-go taxpayers; they work gig to gig for a carousel of employers – so they don’t qualify for the government’s jobkeeper wage subsidy.
This morning, a friend in Cairns was measuring the dire effects of the virus on the local economy. Cairns survives on seasonal work from the tourist trade, which has, of course, collapsed. But the work is casual, and these workers don’t qualify for the jobkeeper payment, either.
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