Jobkeeper saved jobs? We lost 10k people here at the price of $850m.
Meanwhile, many small businesses that needed the money then , lost their business and jobs.
The people who lost their jobs probably received a good redundancy payout and got new jobs. The only loser is the taxpayers. Did they care, because the money didn't come out directly from their pockets. Qantas has sacked 10,000 people since COVID-19
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline has let go a total of 10,000 people since the start of the pandemic.
“We had to make some tough decisions to get the company to survive the pandemic, and to get to a stage where we could rebuild,” Joyce said.
He conceded that the redundancies weren’t fair, pointing to Qantas’s redundancy payments that have exceeded $1 billion.
He said the company is now recruiting crew for its Airbus A380 airliners.
