The government supported organisations caring for the elderly/disabled/mentally ill with money you could apply for if your employee was self isolating due to possibly having C19.
Meaning if you had any symptoms, you were asked to stay home for 2 weeks & you would not use your own sick/personal leave. The organisation would then apply to be subsidised to cover the leave. This was to ensure people did not feel compelled to go to work for financial necessity.
You were not required to go & get tested unless your symptoms worsened. Once you felt better you returned to work or I don't what happened after that if you still felt sick, coz I don't know anyone that had more than 2 weeks off.
Unfortunately I recovered from a cold a week or 2 before the policy came into effect. I did get a bonus the other week for not getting sick though.
Sorry I can't give you a $$$ for it, but things like that along with a big decrease in tax revenue. We're gonna be paying off a huge debt after this, that if it even ends. Its going to take a big rethink on how we react to pandemics to avoid it happening again soon. If we keep responding like this the worlds going to be farked.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/australian-unions-accused-of-opportunistic-response-to-coronavirus
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