August 20, 2020: The Government has amended the JobKeeper rules to allow more employees to qualify for the JobKeeper payment.
This is achieved by extending the eligible employee test to also include eligible employees who were employed on 1 July 2020 (in addition to those employed on the original 1 March 2020 employment date), where they are not currently nominated for JobKeeper payments with another entity.
As a result, more employees may qualify for JobKeeper payments from 3 August 2020 (i.e., JobKeeper fortnight 10), if they were employed on 1 July 2020 and meet the other eligibility criteria. To learn more, please download our Urgent JobKeeper action document.