Government made it ‘very clear’ JobKeeper had a ‘sunset clause’

Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume says the government’s wage subsidy programs “always had an end date” following RBA calls to extend the JobKeeper program. The RBA on Thursday urged the government to consider extending the JobKeeper scheme beyond the government’s September deadline. Ms Hume told Sky News it was “very clear from the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis that the economic measures that were put into place by the government were always going to be temporary and targeted and proportionate and scalable”. She said when the deadline approached, “there would need to be some sort of transition beyond that”. “That’s why the Prime Minister has introduce the idea pf a ‘JobMaker’ program and heralding a new era of cooperation between business and unions and government,” she said. “So that we’re all moving towards an economy that has a higher rate of growth that creates more jobs and is far more stable when it comes out the other side of this crisis.” Image: News Corp Australia Via news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site https://www.news.com.au