The company still has plenty of business. They still have plenty of money coming in. But they will only give him as many hours as is covered under the job keeper, so they can pay him through that, not the company's money.

So he would be getting more pay??? Not sneaky at all as long as he’s working the hours the company tells the ato and Centrelink.
You’re a dick head to report this, it’s not illegal and the company will know someone has

Ummm...did you even read it. No, he's getting significantly less money. He's working less hours and getting less money. The company he works for is doing just fine, but we really aren't!

I swear to god, people on here are losing their minds. They are so quick to have a reaction and go off. Shame on them. Just ignore her comment, clearly she did not read it and I hope instead of getting all huffy puffy, just walks away and takes some me time.

Is he getting the $1500 though???? That’s better than putting him off. It’s Not your business if the hours are there or not. How do you know there’s more hours available and how do you know the business is doing just fine?
It’s tough times for everyone , maybe they are doing it so that their business still exists after all this. Or maybe they are putting on my staff so less people will be out of work.
Who knows ?!?!

It’s legal, companies are doing this everywhere so there’s still jobs and companies after things calm down.

Contracts don’t mean much at the moment. You obviously have your panties in a twist so call fair work tomorrow and get it clarified. I definitely wouldn’t be giving your details though as he would be the first without a job if and when the company is forced to put people off.

I’m the person. Who wrote not sure who it’s sneaky, and basically ^ comment is my whole reply.

You have no clue what their financials are, how much work they have.
If they had the work for him he would get it surely. It wouldn’t do them any any favours to put staff off when there is work there.
There literally no benefit for them to be understaffed if they are busy.

Yes but you have no clue either- so I just don’t get your aggression. Perhaps she is telling the absolute truth.. this is the type of time when people would find it hard to resist to screw the system if they can access so much money. Think about it

You do realise they aren’t even getting this money right now and it’s out of their pockets at the moment?
Also I wasn’t the comment that said dickhead but all the other sentiments were true

That’s perfectly legal as well. It means they have a job to go to after things have calmed down. They are allowed to quit and go straight on jobseeker and get jobseeker plus the $550 supplement

Is it really?

No it’s not legal. I checked. They can reduce hours but cannot make you work more than your contracted hours.

Yes not legal

His work has calculated how many hours he can work based on the job keeper payment divided by his hourly rate. Then he is only allowed to work that many hours now, even though he was on a fulltime contract and there's enough work.

That sucks. like you said with rent 50% of your income it must be tough. Good luck finding work.

With her husband making $900 a week previously, they would also be able to get family tax benefit A & B (make sure that you update your yearly income estimate in line with what your husband is earning now so you get the full rate if you weren’t before), so if you’re not already getting that, you should apply. You could probably also get partnered parenting payment (if you weren’t eligible before, you probably would be now) also, your husband can prove a drop in his wages so he will be able to withdraw super. Make sure you apply for low income health care card too to help with medical expenses.

Under certain reasonable situations. The example on ATO was that a nail salon closes, this is quite distant from that scenario...She states that the hours are still there and needed.

But how does she know the hours are still there and needed??? Does she run the company
She should be grateful he’s still bringing in an income in this tough time

Well how does she know..? Hmm because her husband had a full time job there and he may have a lot of knowledge..much more than you

..this is absolutely irrelevant to her question. BTW all these companies applying for Jobkeeper aren’t actually confirmed they will be approved and can lose significant money because of the downpayment they need to make to their workers and then may find they were not elegible. The post below points out what is legal.

Not being rude, but surely a delivery driver wouldn’t make much more than $1500 a fortnight anyway.... my husband went through a patch of having to find work a couple of years ago and delivery drivers don’t earn much at all. I know that people set their budget up around what money they usually have coming in, but maybe you’ll have to adjust and just be grateful he still has a job at all. Enjoy having him home more often maybe.

I hate it when people assume someone else’s income. Maybe he works for a better paying company than your husband did. Maybe her husband does more hours than your husband did. Maybe he works nights so gets a higher rate of pay than your husband did. Why would she come on here and lie if she’s after suggestions for her situation?

Generally he would clear around $900 a week, now he is getting around $650. Our rent alone is $450. And we have 4 kids. I am a sahm/student. We are both frantically applying for jobs. A drop of $250 a week makes a big difference for us.

If he is getting jobkeeper look into if you can job seeker for yourself. You are exempt from looking for work and the assets test atm

My husband didn’t work as a delivery driver (though his brother does manage a frozen food delivery company) he was looking for work, but didn’t take any of the delivery driver jobs they were offering because even with regular overtime, even the best paying jobs weren’t near enough to what we needed to make. I’m not assuming, I’m making an educated guess. I’m not without sympathy, but his company is within their rights. Your husband should be able to access his super if need be, since he can prove he has lost income because of Covid 19. It might not be what you want to do, but at least it’s there to fall back on.

*also, I didn’t call her a liar. If they are able to meet their contracts with their employees working less hours, then obviously they are not being sneaky, they are just cutting back to bare necessity (maybe so that the company makes it through).

It’s not really loop holes, it’s how they did it to help the companies keep employees in jobs and companies running

Just remove the gap in h ttps from link

Thank you.

Hope it helps x

Even if you come to give up this is too difficult situation, please go through and ask the hotline or on the forum there.. asking is important and it helps everyone get an idea. I know being so vulnerable it’s easy to give up.. but get absolute clarification before you make that decision.