{"id":71,"date":"2020-04-01T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:17:58","slug":"job-keeper-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/job-keeper-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Keeper Payment Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Eligible businesses will be paid up to $1,500 per fortnight, for eligible employees for the next six months<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we know:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Businesses will be paid up to $1,500 per fortnight, per eligible employee, for the next 6 months<\/li><li>Eligible employees as at 1 March 2020&nbsp;and each eligible employee is currently engaged<\/li><li>Businesses must have had a drop in turnover of at least 30 per cent due to coronavirus to qualify for the payments to give their workers<\/li><li>Payments will start from first week of May, backdated to March 30<\/li><li>Legal obligation on employers to pass on the full wage subsidy to employees<\/li><li>Payments for full-time workers, part-time workers, sole traders &amp; casuals (employed for 12months or more)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is designed by the government to enable employers to keep paying their staff during the coronavirus crisis, in an effort to ensure workers still have a job once the pandemic has subsided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business.gov.au\/risk-management\/emergency-management\/coronavirus-information-and-support-for-business\/jobkeeper-payment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Job Keeper information<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/thehorizongroup.com.au\/pdf\/JobKeeper_Payment_expected_outcome.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Horizon Job Keeper Fact Sheet<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/treasury.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-03\/Fact_sheet_supporting_businesses_6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Treasury Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#f8ed62\" class=\"has-background\"><em><strong>NOTE: Until this is passed by parliament (expected early April)<br>we have limited&nbsp;details<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eligible businesses will be paid up to $1,500 per fortnight, for eligible employees for the next six months What we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,54],"tags":[4,6,3,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehorizongroup.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}