This discussion paper outlines how the JobKeeper scheme is encouraging businesses to dismiss ineligible employees, meaning casuals employed for less than a year and non-resident workers have been disproportionately affected by job losses in recent months.

Key findings:

• Of those working for a business that received JobKeeper the number of eligible workers remained the same but the number of ineligible workers halved, going from 14% of the labour force to 7% by the end of May.
• That suggests 723,700 people lost their jobs because they were ineligible workers in businesses that were attracting JobKeeper.