‘No excuse’ not to extend JobKeeper to temporary migrants, casuals after $60 billion bungle: advocacy groups

The government's "significant error" in calculating the cost of the JobKeeper scheme should be seen as an opportunity to extend financial support to vulnerable workers, advocates argue.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese is calling for the federal government to expand JobKeeper. Source: AAP

A $60 billion underspend in the government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy is an opportunity to extend the scheme to vulnerable workers who are currently ineligible for the support, unions and advocacy groups say.

Temporary visa holders, including international students, and casual workers who haven’t been employed for 12 months were notably excluded from the JobKeeper program, which was previously touted as the largest economic package in Australia’s history.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Prime Minister Scott 

 

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