, which found the company had joined the list of Australia’s 20 ‘Most Distrusted Brands’ - joining Amazon, Google, Twitter and Crown Resorts. The report’s author noted the public criticism around JobKeeper.Paul Jones
Of course there are numerous companies, particularly small businesses, that have legitimately received JobKeeper and for whom the payroll support was a lifeline. But those companies that have unjustifiably benefited from the taxpayer-funded subsidies and limited the government’s ability to extend corporate welfare to those that really need it have sullied the reputation of business, and elevated the level of distrust of companies overall.
Galling too are those organisations whose revenues didn’t fall by the qualification amount yet stood employees down anyway, seeing the pandemic as an opportunity to write a chunk of leave entitlements off the GL while impacted employees got nothing from the government.