It is to be expected the unemployed are absorbed as businesses...

It is to be expected the unemployed are absorbed as businesses open at the easing of restrictions re employing workers who had previously been stood down, regardless of government programs. Also businesses are in need of staff especially in the absence and previously the domain of overseas workers, working tourists, overseas students et al. The significance of the lockdown and subsequent resurgence at notably our busiest retail period has to be put into perspective and not solely claimed as economic adeptness..

It remains distressing that underemployment is disregarded and distorts employment statistics as the base figure for calculations is but one hour.. "Les, lies and damned statistics", seems pertinent.