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Documents prove JobMaker an ‘incentive to fire workers’, Labor claims – NEWS.com.au
Documents prove JobMaker an ‘incentive to fire workers’, Labor claims
Older workers have been singled out and sacrificed by a government subsidy that incentivises businesses to sack them, Labor says. Under the government’s $4bn JobMaker scheme, businesses fire older workers and hire multiple younger employees, according to Treasury documents obtained by the ABC under freedom of information laws.
They show a full-time worker aged over 35 on $75,000 a year could be replaced by three part-timers on wages between $27,500 and $30,000, with the increased cost offset by…
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