Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
Listening carefully to Grant Robertson yesterday, it looks very much like he wants businesses to keep their employees through this crisis by providing Employers with the money, the 80% wage subsidy, (even if some employees take a temp wage cut as I know some would prefer to losing their jobs altogether ) rather than providing that money to Work & Income to subsidise more people on the dole.
Reason being, he wants Employers & Employees to keep that relationship going through this, so when it's over, we can come out of it faster.
That looks well thought out policy which benefits both Employers & Employees, i.e. business.